"It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else."

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John Cage

#Thinking Quotes #Irritating Quotes

“There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do . . . there are things I watch my hand do that are almost thoughtless. I can remember the moment of learning them. It is knowledge you have in the hand.”
“Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.”
“It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.”
“Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.”
“In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.”

Source : Isidore Singer, Israel Zangwill (1924). “A Religion of Truth, Justice and Peace: A Challenge to Church and Synagogue to Lead in the Realization of the Social and Peace Gospel of the Hebrew Prophets”
“You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.”
“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.”
“Hardly did it appear, than from my mouth it passed into my heart.”

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