Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa. Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.
George OrwellBritish writer and journalist1903 - 1950
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Response to being offered the opportunity to settle in another country. His Family had drowned while attempting to flee Syria as refugees. A photograph of his son's body washed up on a Turkish beach has been credited with initiating a greater global response to the humanitarian crisis. :
Response to being offered the opportunity to settle in another country. His Family had drowned while attempting to flee Syria as refugees. A photograph of his son's body washed up on a Turkish beach has been credited with initiating a greater global response to the humanitarian crisis. :
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Thales of MiletusAncient Greek philosopher and mathematicianc. 624 - c. 546 BC
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Colin PowellAmerican general and diplomat1937 - 2021
Book title : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The universe was made on purpose, the circle said. In whatever galaxy you happen to find yourself, you take the circumference of a circle, divide it by its diameter, measure closely enough, and uncover a miracle — another circle, drawn kilometres downstream of the decimal point. There would be richer messages farther in. It doesn't matter what you look like, or what you're made of, or where you come from. As long as you live in this universe, and have a modest talent for mathematics, sooner or later you'll find it. It's already here. It's inside everything. You don't have to leave your planet to find it. In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist’s signature. Standing over humans, gods, and demons, subsuming Caretakers and Tunnel builders, there is an intelligence that antedates the universe.
Carl SaganAmerican astrophysicist, cosmologist and author1934 - 1996
Always, you put more of yourself into your work, until one day, you never know exactly which day, it happens—you are your work. The passions that motivate you may change, but it is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor1881 - 1973
Reported by Charlotte Chandler, The Ultimate Seduction (1984)
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Francis BaconEnglish philosopher and statesman1561 - 1626