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“Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood”
Carl Gustav Jung
“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
Betty Friedan
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”
Clara Barton
“The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I usually try to look for something I haven't done before, a side of me that I haven't completely explored. There's a truth in acting, and there is a very real part of me that can understand that or can believe in that or can see the beauty of that or see the ugliness in that and the statement that needs to be made. So it's all kind of me.”
Angelina Jolie
“One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.”
John Lennon
“It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.”
Cher
“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
Keith Sweat
“My relationship to music is completely subliminal, it just flows through me.”
Charles Manson