"Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self."

-- Bill Courtney

#Self Quotes #Entering Quotes #World Quotes

“Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.”

Source : "Invented symbols". www.nytimes.com. January 05, 2006.
“Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.”
“...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (2009). “The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.29, Sheridan House, Inc.
“I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.”
“I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.”
“Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.”
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
“You don't get bored making an album.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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