"I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now."

-- Louisa May Alcott

#Coffee Quotes #Compliment Quotes

“This show [Jessica Jones] was exploring the aftermath, and that is unique. You're sitting there going, "I know what happens. This is the aftermath." You watch her daily life and how she dealt with people, like new prospects for love or friends that were close to her, but she didn't know if she could trust them or if they were enemies.”
“The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”
“Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.”
“When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.”
“Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.”
“I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.”
“Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.”

Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2008). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.196, Springer Science & Business Media
“Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me,”

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