Shahamat Morteza Quotes & Sayings

I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist. — William Stafford

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. — Viktor E. Frankl

Those times when I couldn't stand what I was, and I didn't know how I could possibly be something else. — Kate Bornstein

Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back Polo! — Elizabeth Gilbert

A lot of what you presume to be evidence of your intelligence is just part of a vast cultural inheritance. — David McRaney

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn to God when everything is going well for us. We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. — C.S. Lewis

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction. — Joseph Nye

We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily have joined in proclaiming its death. A substantial number of Americans who believe they worship God actually worship three major literary characters: the Yahweh of the J Writer (earliest author of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers), the Jesus of the Gospel of Mark, and Allah of the Koran. — Harold Bloom

What, the Great War? in which your great-grandfather, who happened to be my grandfather, was gassed in the trenches not once, but twice? Which meant he and your great-grandmother were very poor, because he was too ill to work and died young? And meant I inherited his weak lungs? Not relevant to us? her mother says. And then the break-up of the Balkans, and the start of the territorial trouble in the Middle East between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and the civil unrest in Ireland, and the shifts of power in Russia, and the power shifts in the Ottoman empire, and the bankruptcy, economic catastrophe and social unrest in Germany, all of which played a huge part in the rise of Fascism and in the bringing about of another war in which, as it happens, your own grandmother and grandfather
who happened to be my mother and father
both fought when they were just two or three years older than you? Not relevant? To us? — Ali Smith

I'm reminded on a monthly basis that I'm a damn Yankee." "What's makes you a damn Yankee?" "It's a Yankee who comes down and stays." He — Anne McAneny

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher. — Shawn Stewart Ruff

Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman. — Mitra Farahani

the word enthusiasm is "the God within. — Wayne W. Dyer

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently. — Nia Long

Your opinion is not my reality. — Steve Maraboli