"When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others."

Effort, Saying, Will

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"When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others."

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"A lazy person will never grow wealthy."

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"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest."

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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."

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"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."

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"I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time."

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"When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see."

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"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."

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