"For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #Moral Quotes

“HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.”

Source : Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York”, p.63, Pan Macmillan
“Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager taught me to look at the guitar in a different way - and how to tap into that thing inside of me that was already leaning toward improvisation. You learn other players' licks at first; then you take off the training wheels and start using the licks as building blocks to make your own thing. That's how influences work. somewhere in whatever I do, there's a little bit of Hendrix - plus about a hundred others”
“I think what I do is positive, in its own way.”
“Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.”
“I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.”
“I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.”
“We live in a description of reality.”
“American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.”

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