"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Rivers Quotes #Needs Quotes #Nerves Quotes

“People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.”
“Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.”

Source : Song: Sisters brothers, Album: Medicine, 2015
“The organization is, above all, social. It is people.”
“Patterns of these UFOs appearance and behavior suggest a limited range of sizes and shapes of unidentified craft, despite the often-desperate efforts on the part of the American and other governments to discount them as nothing more substantial than mistakes made by naÃ¯ve individuals. Their performance, observed repeatedly by expert witnesses, remains as far off the scale today as it was in the 1940s.”
“If I've got Writer's Block it generally means that I don't have that much to say or something's not quite connecting. I have had Writer's Block a bunch of times and it's generally because I'm not able to write down what I'm feeling basically. Mostly, I just need to be alone really, or be with someone who can bring that out of me.”
“Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.”
“Night is a world lit by itself.”
“Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.”

Source : Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1962). “Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi”

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