Rose Macaulay Quotes

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

If you look for a problem long enough, and you can’t find it, the possibility exists that it doesn’t exist.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that false reality is light-years from what’s really happening, that in itself is a tremendous defense mechanism because when you start talking about what is actually happening, it is so different from what people perceive to be happening. They just can’t make that jump; it’s too insane for them.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys.

I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

There are many kinds of delusion.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.