Doe Quotes - Page 186

Without education, confidence does not come.

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill her own dream-that is, her own destruction and death? And, in some surreptitious way, isn't she in charge of them? Doesn't she bend them to her will?

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Bitcoin is a currency, bitcoin is a network, bitcoin is a technology and you can't separate these things. A consensus network that bases its value on the currency does not work without the currency.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Chemistry does not guarantee compatibility.

There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

A FRIEND IS A PERSON . . . With whom you can be sincere. . . . To whom you never need to defend yourself. . . . On whom you can depend whether present or absent. . . . With whom you never need pretend. . . . To whom you can reveal yourself without fear of betrayal. . . . Who does not feel she owns you because you are her friend. . . . Who will not selfishly use you because she has your confidence. I WOULD HAVE SUCH A FRIEND. . . AND I WOULD BE SUCH A FRIEND. I DO HAVE SUCH A FRIEND!

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.