"Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it."

-- Steve Winwood

#Giving Quotes #Listening Quotes #Doe Quotes

“It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.”
“The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .”
“You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf
“One of the most wonderful things about having a positive attitude is the number of people it touches, many times in ways you'll never know.”
“I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still.”
“Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.”
“Givers for God disarm the power of money.”
“I'm no expert in vibrators, but I was surprised to learn that one could fit in that little box.”

Source : "My Hotel Room In Vegas Came With A Sex Kit ..." by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. January 8, 2015.

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