Charles Macomb Flandrau Quotes
It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
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The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.
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I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
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I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
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It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
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It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.
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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
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I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.
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The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.
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You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
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The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
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I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.
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I think the most important thing is you have to learn to love auditioning, which I have definitely learned to love. It's going to be a huge part of your career, even if you're right at the top. You're still going to have to audition sometimes, and if you don't learn to love that, that's such a big part of what you're job's going to be.
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It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.
