"I try not to listen to other music. I have to keep my mind open for what's coming in as a songwriter. If I go into the gas station and pay for gas, whatever song was playing when I was in there is in my head for the next few days and I can't change the channel."

-- Mark Farner

#Song Quotes #Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.”
“Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it.”
“I donâ€™t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because Iâ€™ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.”
“Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.”
“For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group
“When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.”
“I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.”
“We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing, because we never lose games here. I think a lot of guys know that, and they know the tradition behind the Green Bay Packers, so it is time for us to get on this road and start winning games.”

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