"I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world."

-- Anthony Braxton

#Discipline Quotes #World Quotes #Students Quotes

“Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.”

Source : "Question time: Jack Dee". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.
“We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.”
“The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who panicked, who felt Negroid even to the depths of my entrails. I felt the beginings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro, but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another.”
“Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.”

Source : Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books
“My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.”
“It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.”
“Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?”
“A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.”

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