"It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership."

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Source : William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr

William Kittredge

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“Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”
“Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. Itâ€™s about seeing the bigger picture. Itâ€™s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. Itâ€™s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.”

Source : Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.31, Pearson UK
“Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.”
“Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.228
“Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.”
“Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.”
“Organizing time is exactly like organizing space. Just as a closet is a limited amount of space into which you must fit a certain number of objects, a schedule is a limited space into which you must fit a certain number of tasks. Each day and each week is simply a container, a storage unit with a definite capacity. The trick is to treat time not as an abstraction but as something solid that you can hold on to and move around.”

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