"Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . Thats what I would like to do. I think thats one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicians is through his music."

-- John Coltrane

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Why do soldiers fight? They join because they believe in a higher cause -- protecting religion, their nation, defending against a foreign nation. But why do soldier stay and fight? Soldiers aren't individuals. They are part of a unit. And that unit is led by a commander. If they don't trust their commander ... if there is no leadership, there is nothing.”
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
“Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.”
“While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.”

Source : Susanna Rowson (1991). “Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple”, p.44, Penguin
“Putting my face in food is not a habit I have unless I'm really drunk.”
“I want to make something, and I want people to know I made it.”
“Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.”
“... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.”

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