"After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically."

-- Cat Power

#Self Esteem Quotes #Years Quotes #Play Quotes

“Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?”

Source : FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012
“The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.”
“It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.”
“each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.”

Source : Eloise Lownsbery (1931). “Out of the Flame”
“If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it.”
“Art simply canâ€™t be stopped.”
“Worship is accomplished with the life as well as with the words and attitudes of people. Changed and transformed lives testify to the character and supernatural power of the God of heaven. Closeness to Him produces changes in character and holiness.”
“I came into this world black, naked and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world black, naked and ugly. So I enjoy life.”

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