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“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.”

“If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise”

People Ifs Giving Purpose Existence Leader Materials Noble Permanent Enterprise

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.”

Giving Doe House Grows Realizing Existence Adventure Empty Core Relate Vain Significance Routine Chamber Counting Manifold Humdrum

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform.”

Giving Form Desire Imagination Existence Creativity Connections Originals Defined Innate

Author:Shaun McNiff

“Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.”

Giving Trying May Important Action Suffering Existence Habit Important Things Notion Contrary Fearful Uncertain Observers Trifles Untrue

Author:Carl Maria von Weber

“The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation.”

Giving Self Today Party Existence Rights Depends Capitalism Organization Workers Chinese Enterprise Labour Communist Capitalist Domination Communist Party

Author:Jacques Ranciere

“Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.”

Giving Art Existence Art Is Substance

Author:Sondra Horton Fraleigh

“Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.”

Ifs Giving Existence Argument Proof Just One Convincing Existence Of God Theist

Author:Marcel Conche

“The all-pervading energy source of existence or Shakti manifests itself as creation. Shakti is the divine mother who gives birth to and nurtures the newborn-whether it is a newborn babies a brand new relationship, a fresh idea, or a magical manifestation. Although Shakti is beyond the boundaries of gender, form or color, we call It Mother because of its mothering and creative qualities.”

“Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.”

Giving Pain Life Is Secret Existence Tears Infinite Protection Shirts Iron Thread T Shirt Resignation Reconcile Fables Spun

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.”

Knows Giving Joy Suffering Existence Cameras Proof God Knows

Author:Lucas Samaras

“The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.”

Giving Pain Suffering Existence Subjects Shapes Excuse Frustration Denied Remedy Propose

Book:Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days

Source: Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days

“In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.”

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Book:Learn to Grow Old

Source: Learn to Grow Old

“This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.”

Source: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals

“Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.”

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Author:Marcel Duchamp