"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."

-- Chauncey Depew

#Motivation Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Steps Quotes

“You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end.”
“I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.”
“It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?”

Source : "God Is an Iron and Other Stories". Book by Spider Robinson, 2002.
“God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.”
“Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, "By dang, I can do it!" then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.”
“I see Earth! It is so beautiful.”
“Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.”
“I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between,”

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