The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWork finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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