"To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche."

-- Dexter Gordon

#Nice Quotes #Ego Quotes #Littles Quotes

“You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.”
“You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.”
“It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.7
“Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.”

Source : "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.
“When I started teaching, I would get miffed if a student asked me to write him or her a recommendation for law school - I'd feel like that's not what we were doing in the course. But now I see that person as someone who might be gainfully employed. I bring in a lot of people to speak to my classes, and I've gotten to the point where I've expanded the type of guests I invite to include people both inside and outside of the traditional publishing world.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.”
“There is no nature at an instant.”
“I got a new job.â€ Patch locked eyes with me, and I warmed in a lot of places. In fact, I was dangerously close to feverish.”

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