"Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls."

-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Thinking Quotes #Brain Quotes #Dolls Quotes

“Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.”
“I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.”
“The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.”
“I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.”
“Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.”
“I definitely think the European weather has more of a factor than the European clay. I think the European weather changes from week to week, I mean, last year it was sunny and hot and this week it's kind of playing tricks on us a little bit. I definitely think that is a factor.”
“It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.”
“I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.”

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