"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Nature Quotes #Angel Quotes #Men Quotes

“The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.”

Source : Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”
“Things like email, and Twitter, and Facebook, and text messaging - they all work reasonably well. But we use them because they're convenient, and cheap, and easy, not because they're the best way to communicate with somebody.”
“If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1914). “The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”
“I prefer to feel uncomfortable by participating in projects were I am not the specialist. I am always the one who knows nothing. Playing with jazzmen and knowing nothing about jazz. Playing pop music and knowing nothing about how to structure a pop song. And the funny thing, which still surprises me, is that I continue to be invited to play by new people, from different areas, every day.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.”
“Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.”
“There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.”
“If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.”

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