Coming Of Age In Samoa Quotes & Sayings

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. — David Foster Wallace

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place. — Bob Newhart

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation. — Sun Tzu

Measurements are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors. — David McCullough

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own. — Margaret Mead

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Words have as much weight as trying to jump from the 123333333334 Floor without a parachute and to be alive. — Deyth Banger

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can't be said but are always the most important. — Gerhard Richter

If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about - and make a few million along the way - then I have been successful. — Bill Rancic

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life. — Margaret Mead