"The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second."

-- James Elkins

#Opposites Quotes #Glimpse Quotes #Glances Quotes

“I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.”

Source : "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...”

Source : Letter to Sir William Temple, October 1653
“The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.”
“Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.”

Source : Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1838). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27”, p.574
“It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.”
“The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who had the most influence on my playing. I saw him through a window playing piano and I thought it was unbelievable somebody could move their fingers that fast. And this is how I got interested in piano.”
“I think everyone keeps on growing. I've grown about 0.0000001 mm?”
“Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.”

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