"When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it."

-- John Scofield

#Joy Quotes #Listening Quotes #Compare Quotes

“I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.”
“A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and the same thing... It's in exactly the same way that all Brook's exercises try to train the actor. The actor is trained to become so organically related within himself, he thinks completely with his body. He becomes one sensitive, responding whole... The whole of him is one.”
“Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.”

Source : "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President". Book by Jimmy Carter, p. 444, 1995.
“To do more, is not necessarily to do better.”
“It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.”
“If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.”
“The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.”
“Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating”

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