Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too. – Stacy Feiner
- Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The benefit of being friends will vastly outweigh the benefit of being enemies. – RADelmonico
- If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism cannot be obtained. – Dada Bhagwan
- Give others the benefit of the doubt. Until they run out of benefit and you run out of doubt. – Pen
- Give others the benefit of the doubt. Until they run out of benefit and you run out of doubt. – Pen
- Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
- We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
- Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-”flesh and bone-”only to be spewed out again in our own works. – Siri Hustvedt
- Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists. – Marty Rubin
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- Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured. – Rick Warren
- Live more, whine less. Smile more, worry less. Love more, hate less. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. – Jack London
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- Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone. – JA Perez
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- If I was alone I’d find something to do. Read or work on homework or doodle, fake it, so if I was alone it’d look like I wanted to be alone. – Julie Anne Peters
- She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. – LM Montgomery
- To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone tog – Vera Nazarian
- You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to. – Michael Morpurgo
- Learn to be alone. Learn to love being alone. Learn you as you’re alone with yourself. – Erica Alex
- It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don’t think I can handle it alone. – Ernest Hemingway
- Rise not alone, rise with others! If you rise alone to the top, you shall be alone at the top! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. – AS Byatt