"At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

#Persistence Quotes #Past Quotes #Men Quotes

“It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.”
“We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it”
“But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books
“No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.”
“For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.”
“To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.”

Source : "The lost city of Venice" by Josh McHugh, www.wired.com. August 1, 2003.
“The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.”
“Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.”

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