"Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness."

-- Robert Bringhurst

#Opportunity Quotes #Design Quotes #Musical Quotes

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”
“In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.”
“Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.”

Source : "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
“She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.”
“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
“There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.”
“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”
“We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.”

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