"Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter."

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Source : George Ellery Hale (1931). “Signals from the Stars”

George Ellery Hale

#Fall Quotes #Squares Quotes #Rays Quotes

“If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.90, Faber & Faber
“The heart of change is in the emotions.”

Source : "The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations". Book by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen, August 1, 2002.
“When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.”
“Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.”
“You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.”
“I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted.”

Source : Patrick Swift (1993). “PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983”
“Yogis love to be alone.”

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