"Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll."

-- Pete Townshend

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“I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.”

Source : "The Poetry of War 1939-45". Book edited by Ian Hamilton, 1965.
“I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.”
“Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.”

Source : Said before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, in G. L. Newnham Collingwood (ed.) 'A Selection from the Correspondence of Lord Collingwood' (1828) vol. 1, p. 168
“The photograph annihilates the person.”

Source : Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.57, Harvard University Press
“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”
“My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.”
“Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.”
“A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.”

Source : "You Didn’t Hear the One About..." by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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