Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
Creativity is to think more efficiently.
I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my action.
The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image.
The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality.
The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.
May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.
I'm a great fan of Carey Lowell's and I loved Jill Hennessey.
The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.
I was not an easy kid.