"Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid."

-- Nick Cave

#Thinking Quotes #Pyramids Quotes #People Quotes

“Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.”
“The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.”

Source : Dahr Jamail (2016). “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”, p.239, Haymarket Books
“Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.”
“People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.”
“We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.”
“Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.”
“One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.”
“I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.”

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