Margot Fonteyn

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, the second is disastrous."

  – Margot Fonteyn

Salvador Dali

As interesting as his art, his words completely entertained me, I read thru every quote (on that web page).  His confidence exudes his self-realization of his talents.  He knows he's the shit.  Salvador's paintings are abstract, complex, and very colorful.  So I would expect a man of similiar characterstics.  You be the judge...

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. "

"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. "

 

"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality. "

"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. "

"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. "

 

"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. "

 

"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. "

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. "

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. "

"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. "

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. "

"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. "

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. "

Jim Morrison

Here's a few from the Jim.  His words are inspiring and intriguing at the same time.

“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”

 

“Where's your will to be weird?”

 

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

 

“How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie – people claim they want to be free – everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?”

 

“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”

 

“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever.”

 

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

Pennys for Your Thoughts

So bored at work... so to kick off the newest addition to my site I've decided to pick several quotes out for today.  Take them to heart, they are meant for you...yes you!!! :-)

"I don't know. I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference."

- Jack Kerouac

"When people talk, listen completely.  Most people never listen."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The only thing constant in life is change."

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it."

- L.  W. Lynett

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up Picasso."

- Pablo Picasso

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

- Pablo Picasso 

"1. I don't think.
2. I don't know.
3. I don't care.
4. I am too busy.
5. I leave well enough alone.
6. I have no time to read and find out.
7. I am not interested."

- anonymous

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental."

- anonymous

 

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts."

- William Shakespeare

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

- G. C. Lichtenberg

Judy Garland

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."

                                    – Judy Garland