"Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring."

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Barbara Holland

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“Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.”
“You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.”
“When I remember something which I had, But which is gone, and I must do without, I sometimes wonder how I can be glad, Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout; It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet My days will not be better days, should I forget.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206
“Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.”
“If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.”

Source : Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, p.84, Crown Archetype
“Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.”
“My view is that leadership is not about position - you can lead very well with no one reporting to you in a hierarchy and you can lead quite poorly with many people below you in the traditional chain of command. Leadership is about mobilizing people toward valued goals, and anyone can do this, in any aspect of life.”
“Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.”

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