“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”
― Choke
― Choke
“هناك بعض الراحة في أن تكوني خاسرة , إنه شئ يتعلق بمسئولية ما بعد الفوز و حرية ما بعد الخسارة .”
― باسيكاليا
― باسيكاليا
“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”
― Choke
― Choke
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