"Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm of discourse about music, improvisation is marginal, but in the realm of doing it, it's omnipresent. Strange distinction here: we're improvising all the time, but when we tend to talk about music, we tend to talk about objects that are fixed, like recordings, scores, pieces."

-- Vijay Iyer

#Decision Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Action Quotes

“But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.
“Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.”
“Life is weather.Â Life is meals,”
“Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.”
“Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.”
“It's common to think things will never happen where you are-never in Cambridge, never in New York, never in Seattle-that sort of thing, whatever it is, never happens here, not in our community. Then it happens, right in front of you, and you realize you were blind to it, that you forgot that intolerance and zealotry and viciousness are human currency everywhere, and it takes your breath away.”
“How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?”
“Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.”

Source : "Body confidence and the new political line on beauty" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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