"All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper."

-- Beth Nielsen Chapman

#Song Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.”
“Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?”

Source : Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.65, Open Road Media
“Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.”
“Chivalry should be consensual.”
“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”
“And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.”
“I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.”
“You're unique, amazing Like no one else You have the exclusive On being yourself.”

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