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“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.”
Source : Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Posthumous Pieces”, p.55, Sentient Publications
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“You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.”
Source : Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.111, Executive Intelligence Review
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“I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how you build a palace. You build a palace one block at a time and then you'll have what you want. That's how it goes.”
Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
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“I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.”
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“When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.”
Source : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". "NASA Direct" with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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“One of the things that I've worked my way out of doing, and I knew that I needed to, was comparing myself to other people. That just poisins everything. It all of a sudden dtermines even clothes you're going to choose to wear that day or what you're going to do with a music production or how you're going to sequence it. It poisinseverything. Your real job in the world is to be you. Comparing yourself to other people I think that hurt me more than anything. Allowing myself to go there so much in my head hurt me.”
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“And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.”
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“Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?”
Source : "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.