"Our distrust is very expensive."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Trust Issues Quotes #Distrust Quotes

“Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.”
“Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.69, Profile Books
“I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.”
“Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the Pacific, across the Atlantic, they came from every point on the compass-many passing beneath the Statue of Liberty-with fear and vision, with sorrow and adventure, fleeing tyranny or terror, seeking haven, and all seeking hope...Immigration is not just a link to America's past; it's also a bridge to America's future.”
“The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.”
“What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.304, Penguin
“Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.”
“Performers love to perform - that's the thing that we do. I think one of the best things was being able to imagine anything that I wanted, anything that I came up with we could do, because this theater is unbelievable.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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