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“I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.”
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“When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.”
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“Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.”
Source : Frank E. Peretti (2011). “Monster”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.”
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“After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired”
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“It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think”
Source : "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 468, 1977.
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“Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.”
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“As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old…At that age, you know enough of the world to have opinions about things, but you're not old enough yet to be overly influenced by the crowd or by what other people are doing or what you think you 'should' be doing. If what you do later on ties into that reservoir in some way, then you are nurturing some essential part of yourself.”
Source : Michael Ondaatje, Walter Murch (2002). “The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film”, p.9, A&C Black
