"These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after."

-- Don DeLillo

“My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.”

Source : "The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway". Documentary, August 1, 2006.
“Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.”

Source : Joel Achenbach (1991). “Why Things are: Answers to Every Essential Question in Life”
“I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.”
“Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.”
“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”
“When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.”
“Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.”

Source : Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.36, Harper Collins
“He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.”

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