Hirakud Quotes & Sayings

He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though often by prevailings. — Francis Bacon

Being a professional," Julius Erving once said, "is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them."16 — Daniel H. Pink

When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating ... As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression. — Robert Bly

saying, with a metaphoric hand wave to the future, 'Hey, — Dawn DeVries Sokol

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. — Lynne Stewart

The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this is how artists go through life, with all of its sensations tickling their craniums like a peacock feather.. — Douglas Coupland