#elf

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. ↗

— Alan Watts

#drown #faith #float #grab #hold

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#artist #beyond #comprehensible #forever #himself

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. ↗

— David Viscott

#any #consequence #effort #enthusiasm #face

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#because #better #engine #felt #get

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#any #having #i #recall #self-awareness

I play a detective, very close to myself actually. ↗

— Jon Voight

#close #detective #i #myself #play

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so. ↗

— Murray Walker

#avoid #circuit #degrees #doing #fail

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character. ↗

— Ralph Thomas Walker

#character #connections #i #i am #i do

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#hollywood #i #myself #person #starlet

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#i #legs #many #more #myself