"If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person."

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Source : "Gil Scott-Heron, my brave and brilliant friend" by Jamie Byng, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2011.

Gil Scott-Heron

#Able Quotes #Helping Quotes #Position Quotes

“We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.”
“I get and read an enormous number of first novels.”
“For me, fashion is an expression of who I am right in that moment - so what you're seeing is what I'm influenced by now.”
“I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.”
“Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.'”
“The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let the music make the money, not the other way around. We have flipped the model to make the artistry be at the forefront of everything we do. Music makes the business and that's what makes it work.”

Source : Source: www.alternativenation.net
“I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.”
“The quickest way to be happy is to choose what you already have.”

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