"Music always brings great things and makes me meet amazing people. It's amazing."

“The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.”

“I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in old literati paintings. My innermost feeling which was awakened by the same mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums has been totally and utterly changed. Moreover, like an apparition, it hides deep down in my vessels. The very trees and rocks have become the storage of memories and emotions from various eras. Forced by the rapid change of time and perspective, I cannot help but feel urged to face up to these things once again.”

“I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.”

“If you think about it, we love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel. In order to willingly accept the direction of another individual, it must make you feel good to do so...If you believe what I'm saying, you cannot help but come to the conclusin that those you have followed passionately, gladly, zealously~have made you feel like somebody...This business of making another person feel good in the unspectacular course of his daily comings and goings is, in my view, the very essence of leadership.”

“Contests were so pertinent that you had to think that way but today, it's not like that. You have your contest skaters, you have your video skaters, you have your skaters who don't like either of them, but they all are sponsored and get paid.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com

“Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product.”

Source : "Whatsapp's co-founder on how the app became a phenomenon" by Cade Metz, www.wired.com. October 26, 2015.

“This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.”

“We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.”