"You don't need the frills and thrills to make something amazing. I think that's what inspires me with the blues."

-- ZZ Ward

#Thinking Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.”
“When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.”
“When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.61, Pan Macmillan
“Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.”
“Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.”

Source : "Madonna loves Christian Audigier's label, but will we?" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.
“How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?”
“Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 13, 2017
“We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.”

Source : Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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