"When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters."

-- Martin Yan

#Life Quotes #Passing Away Quotes #Matter Quotes

“We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.”
“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.”
“Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.”

Source : Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.211, Penguin
“If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.”
“Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.”
“If youâ€™re worrying about the past, youâ€™ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.”
“Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.”
“In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.”

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