"My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time."

-- Ben Marcus

#Track Quotes #Goal Quotes

“But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2014). “Comet in Moominland: Can Moomintroll save his beloved valley?”, p.51, Macmillan
“What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.”
“Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel music is, these people are singing about their faith. So it always comes across with, as authentic, you know? Gospel choirs put across this amazing sound but they're singing from the heart because they truly believe it. And I kind of have that faith, but I just have that faith in music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code.”
“Love is a cognitive, willful act. Feelings have very little to do with it, particularly around three o'clock in the morning when the baby needs changing or somebody has "lost it" before getting to the bathroom to throw up.”

Source : Kevin Leman (1987). “Women who try too hard: breaking the pleaser habits”
“Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.”
“The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.”
“I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.”

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