"I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth."

-- Yo-Yo Ma

#Our World Quotes #Identity Quotes #Different Quotes

“The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.”
“If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.”
“Let me give you a hint, young ones, what it is you will become as you grow. What things make you cry, what things bring you pain, what things hurt you now, what things threaten your peace; what things you fear, what things bring you rage. It will be the opposite of these that you will become if you chose to accept your weakness, embrace the Son and simply grow.”
“There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.”
“I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive.”
“Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.27
“I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.”

Source : Lynsey Addario (2015). “It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War”, p.19, Penguin
“I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.”

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