"Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation."

-- Helen and Scott Nearing

#Effort Quotes #Acquisition Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.”
“Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.”
“But by all means, keep moving.”
“note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]”
“... there is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't ...”
“Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.”
“I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!”
“I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.”

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