"All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?"

-- Ty Segall

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.”
“One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.”
“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.”
“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”

Source : "Written on Water". Book by Eileen Chang, trans. Andrew F. Jones New York: Columbia University Press, 2. "Writing of One's Own", pp. 17 - 18, 2005.
“Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.”
“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.”
“Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.”
“What's thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the attic for any little trinket you hadn't known was there.”

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