"I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Buddhism Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.”
“Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.”
“Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.”
“Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.”
“I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.”
“Music is the eye of the ear.”
“Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.”
“If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.”

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