#tis

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway? ↗

— Henry Flynt

#about #anyway #artists #became #began

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#consider #entertainer #i #i can #life

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. ↗

— Voltaire

#let us #life #make #only #theorizing

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#age #america #birth #day #educated

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards. ↗

— Peter Tork

#afterwards #become #dentist #energy #fails

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#bargain #mutual #only #repeated #satisfaction

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#credit #driver #executive #first-rate #more

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#nothing #satisfies #them #unfortunate

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#any #art #artists #find #great

The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it. So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#i #inducement #last #last night #less