What a beautiful step! I shall never be able to do it.Take your work seriously, but never yourself. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. Paraphrased variants: The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously.As quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotationsā€ˇ (1988) by James Beasley Simpson also quoted in Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women (1992) by Ellen Sue Stern, p.The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously.It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Quotes Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. 1.1 Margot Fonteyn : Autobiographyā€ˇ (1975).
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