"I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living."

-- Lin Yutang

#Thinking Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.”
“Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.”
“If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.”

Source : Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.
“I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.”
“I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.221, Ballantine Books
“I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.”
“The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.”

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