"I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever."

-- David Sanborn

#Thinking Quotes #Tunnels Quotes #Creative Quotes

“I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay”
“The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.”

Source : Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.289, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The vast majority of things parents and kids get in conflict over are highly predictable. We're disagreeing about the same expectations the kid is having difficulty meeting every hour, every day, every week. Because it's predictable, we can have these conversations proactively. That is very hard for people.”
“I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it”
“If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.”
“Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.”
“It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.”
“It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.2289, Macmillan

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