"The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others."

-- Publilius Syrus

#Circumstances Quotes

“Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.”
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
“I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating a space. You’re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.’”
“History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.”
“Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."”
“The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.”

Source : Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.49, Oxford University Press, USA
“Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.”

Source : "Overcoming My Archie Bunker Prejudice" by Jean Stapleton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.

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