“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
― Chuck Close
― Chuck Close
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
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“If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people”
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“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”
― Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
― Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
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