"A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery."

-- Ellen Forney

#Light Quotes #Mind Quotes #Batteries Quotes

“Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.”
“I refused to let go of what I had.”
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

Source : Stephen R. Covey (1999). “Choice: Choosing the Proactive Life You Want to Live”, Franklincovey
“I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness.”
“I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.”
“His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press
“Nothing ever got my pulse racing (in a good way) like hockey. Well, nothing except Beyonce, but that wasn't until I was twelve or so. Then, all of a sudden, it was like I opened my eyes one day and noticed that the world is full of beautiful girls, and I've had a hard time thinking about anything else ever since.”
“My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.”

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