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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#assumptions #capable #capacity #caught #creative

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#few #greatness #people #some #some people

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#because #been #chaotic #come #containing

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#anything #bear #because #competitiveness #did

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#bread #butter #cannot #live #man

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#grow #heart #must #never #old

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#freedom #importance #justice #maintained #neither

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#audience #certain #certain things #fun #how

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#demands #emerging #going #i #just

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#certain #essence #foolish #i #just