"Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work."

-- George Gershwin

#Inspiration Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.”
“Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.”
“I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people's lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world.”
“The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?”
“When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye reports to the brain, but the ear reports to the heart." Perhaps this is the thing that musicians can do that writers can't ever, quite, but it is what I aspire to, that sense/power of the auditory, and the belief that to hear more clearly is to see more clearly, and that to see more clearly is to feel more deeply.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.”

Source : "Interview With German Finance Minister Schauble: 'The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long'". Interview with Michael Sauga and Peter Muller, www.spiegel.de. November 8, 2010.
“Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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