"People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless; you have to hear it."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Gary Giddins

#People Quotes #Intimidated Quotes #Meaningless Quotes

“I've always been a procrastinator.”
“I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.”
“First I went left, he did too. Then I went right, and he did too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog.”
“You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.”
“A man's life is what he thinks about all day long.”
“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”
“Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.”

Source : Donald Hamilton (1980). “Cruises with Kathleen”, David McKay Company
“Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.”

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