Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
RealismPerspectiveInfluence There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
Job SecurityRealismMindsetSocial HierarchyAnxiety Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.
ForesightPreparednessRealism I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.
SkepticismExaggerationCredulityRealism When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
ResponsibilitySelf-RelianceRealismIndependence Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
RealismHealth Challenges I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
RealismMortalitySuffering I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
