"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

-- Thomas Merton

#Courage Quotes #Listening Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!”
“I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.”
“I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.”
“Basketball is not a democratic sport”
“Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.”
“I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.”
“If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?”
“When I created Chipotle in 1993, I had a very simple idea: Offer a simple menu of great food prepared fresh each day, using many of the same cooking techniques as gourmet restaurants. Then serve the food quickly, in a cool atmosphere. It was food that I wanted, and thought others would like too. We've never strayed from that original idea. The critics raved and customers began lining up at my tiny burrito joint. Since then, we've opened a few more.”

Source : "How Chipotle Became The Gold Standard Of Mexican Fast-Food" by Kal Gullapalli, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2011.

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