The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.
The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the f...
After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.
All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.
It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas beliefs habits even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we...
I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
Today changes must come fast and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is pr...
The hearts of great men can be changed.
Without imagination nothing is dangerous.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good. But I don't want to set out to influence people. I don't want to set out to change the wo...
Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.
The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
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