"What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done."

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.”
“My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he was a boy. I learned from him that some dreams are attainable and the penalty for inaction is regret.”
“I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly Iâ€™m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.”
“It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective.”
“[S]ome people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them.”
“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”
“It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.34, Macmillan
“Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.”

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