What did John Steinbeck mean by: … you must not expect to find that people understand what they do. - John Steinbeck Writer · USA Copy
+ Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Steinbeck, Praise, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Feraz Zeid, October 28, 2023December 26, 2023, John Steinbeck, Be Kind, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world. Feraz Zeid, August 29, 2023December 24, 2023, John Steinbeck, Harmony, Peace, Self-acceptance, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ I believe that love cannot be bought except with love. Feraz Zeid, June 7, 2023December 12, 2023, John Steinbeck, Love, Reciprocity, Value, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Steinbeck, Eden, Fight, Freedom, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Steinbeck, Pay, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Feraz Zeid, June 27, 2023December 12, 2023, John Steinbeck, Process, Revision, Writing, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Steinbeck, Hands, Land, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France