"For me, environment is all. Place is absolutely essential."

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Source : "Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews".

William Goyen

#Essentials Quotes #Environment Quotes

“We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit”
“The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.”
“You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot”

Source : Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com
“See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.”
“Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.”
“Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.”
“Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). Its the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.”
“That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.”

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