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Mendes Da Costa Quotes By Maxwell Maltz

If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet. — Maxwell Maltz

Mendes Da Costa Quotes By Damon Galgut

Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation. — Damon Galgut

Mendes Da Costa Quotes By Irving Stone

What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to
paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the
stuff that held him together as a man. The chief value of art, Vincent, lies
in the expression it gives to the artist. Rembrandt fulfilled what he knew
to be his life purpose; that justified him. Even if his work had been
worthless, he would have been a thousand times more successful than if
he had put down his desire and become the richest merchant in
Amsterdam. (Mendes Da Costa — Irving Stone

Mendes Da Costa Quotes By Stephen Jay Gould

I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake. — Stephen Jay Gould

Mendes Da Costa Quotes By Shunryu Suzuki

It is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves. We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering. — Shunryu Suzuki

Mendes Da Costa Quotes By Anthony Jeselnik

I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same. — Anthony Jeselnik

Mendes Da Costa Quotes By Kay Redfield Jamison

I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Mendes Da Costa Quotes By Stephen Dunn

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery. — Stephen Dunn