"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture â€” that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."

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Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1886). “Lectures and Essays”

William Kingdon Clifford

#Discovery Quotes #Musician Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.”

Source : Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)
“Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Perceiving life in a consciousness of gratitude is literally stepping into another dimension of living. Suddenly the seeming ordinariness of your days takes on a divine sparkle.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 11, 2013
“Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.”

Source : "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago — Now it’s Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.
“Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well.”
“The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.”
“Paul Scholes is literally on another planet”
“And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air, The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”
“Think about laughing and laugh about thinking.”

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