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“Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.”
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“There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.”
Source : Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub
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“The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.”
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“See what is worth learning, and what is worth doing. Thus, you gain an understanding of what is vital, and what is not vital. You need to learn what is important and what is not important. You need to understand what will move you upwards and onwards, and what will hinder you from traveling the higher path.”
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“I think the things that make people different are the things that make them the most beautiful.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.”
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“The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something -- oil, coal, or natural gas -- leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.”
Source : "Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization". Book by Lester R. Brown, October 5, 2009.
