"The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it."

-- Jeff Buckley

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“The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.”

Source : "How Children Succeed". Book by Paul Tough, January 25, 2013.
“I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.”
“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.”
“Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.”
“Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.103, Rutgers University Press
“I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this meaning governed the way the world was. But it's an illusion to think that there are good and bad reasons. Grammar is a lie to make us think that what we say is connected by a logic that you'll find if you study it, a lie that gone on for centuries. Because I now know that life just lurches between stability and instability and doesn't obey any law.”

Source : Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.143, A&C Black
“The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.”
“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

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