"...you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for"

-- Garth Stein

“I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.”
“I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”

Source : Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”
“I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.”

Source : "Ryan Gosling interview - 'Gangster Squad'". www.viva-press.com.
“[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of observation accumulated, phantoms of the imagination were exorcised, idols of the cave were shattered, trustworthy materials were obtained for logical treatment, and hypotheses by long and careful trial were converted into theories.”

Source : Thomas George Bonney (1913). “The Present Relations of Science and Religion”
“Love life's weariness leavens.”

Source : Henri Cazalis, “Always”
“For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'”
“As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.”

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