#arrives

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

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To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. ↗

— John Updike

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Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings. ↗

— Rose Tremain

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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. ↗

— Bruno Walter

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The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. ↗

— Philip Guston

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When your future arrives, will you blame your past? ↗

— Robert Half

#blame #future #past #will #you

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

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