"Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts."

-- Hugh Prather

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“I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.”
“The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”
“Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises,”
“I'm absolutely not an athletic person, but I used to be married to a runner. He would say that, especially in long-distance races, you could tell who was going to win and who wasn't, and if the person was present behind his eyes, if he was looking around and paying attention, you could be pretty sure he wasn't going to win. The person who was tranced out had a much better chance of winning. Because he or she had lost his or her governing self.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that embraced and hungered for new music, as they did in the Classical period. I tell my students that they should just keep writing, write what pleases you, and don't worry about what people or critics may think about your music.”

Source : Source: www.barbaraharbach.com
“I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them”
“Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.”

Source : Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella (2010). “My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman”, p.135, Macmillan
“When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.”

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