"I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion."

-- David Foster Wallace

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Confusion Quotes

“Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.”

Source : Marion Milner (2005). “The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis”, p.66, Routledge
“Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.”
“I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.”
“What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.”
“I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.”
“I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.”
“But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.”

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