"If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful"

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#Successful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Able Quotes

“Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.”
“It's not Spring Break until somebody dies!”
“Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 15, 2015
“I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
“The most effective way to win people to Jesus is to treat them the way Jesus would day in and day out.”
“a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.163, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it, neither our free enterprise system nor our republican form of government could long endure.”

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