"Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it."

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Source : Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

Ellen Goodman

#Ideas Quotes #Mindfulness Quotes #Savour Quotes

“"Compromise" means giving up more than the other side is big enough to take; if and when they have the muscle, they'll be back for more, regardless of what has been given up in an attempt to appear reasonable. You can't make a cur dog stay away from your back door by throwing an occasional bone at him.”
“If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.”
“If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.”
“There's more to life then living, so hold on.”
“There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1960). “Her”, p.24, New Directions Publishing
“I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.”
“When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see what they're giving you, so you try to write back to that, and then they play with that, and you get a sense of what is going on. That's just a natural way in which TV series usually work.”
“I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.”

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