"Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by â€¦ not paying attention?"

-- Joshua Foer

#Memories Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Short Life Quotes

“The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is time for a leader who will lead.”
“Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.”
“Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.”

Source : NPR Interview, January 2007.
“Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.”
“And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and allotted each soul to a star. And mounting them on their stars, as if on chariots, he showed them the nature of the universe and told them the laws of their destiny. - "Timaeus" by Plato 427-347 B.C.”
“Nourish the world with your words, yo.”

Source : Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.168, Three Rivers Press

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