"You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not"

-- Neale Donald Walsch

“If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.”
“You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place.”

Source : Song: No Respect
“Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there.”
“No great achievement is possible without persistent work.”
“You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.”
“You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.”

Source : "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.
“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.”
“When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.”

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