"Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer."

-- Francis Quarles

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“A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.”
“One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.”
“A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."”
“I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.”
“But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.”
“With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.”
“People help way more than we expect, way more than makes sense. But when you talk to people called heroes, they often say they did it for themselves. In one case, a hero said that the cost of not doing it is so great, the sense of shame, when he knew that he was strong enough, that the fear of not doing anything was more frightening than the fear of dying.”

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“Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.”

Source : Moira Johnston (2000). “The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America”, p.49, Beard Books

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