"The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability."

-- Leonard Orr

#Stress Quotes #Breathing Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.”

Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.
“There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.”
“After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.”
“There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community.”
“An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.”
“I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.”
“Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.”

Source : "Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, 1944.

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