"In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way."

-- James Taylor

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Writing has always been my go-to form of expression. Whenever I was going through something as a kid, I would write it down and I would turn it into a poem.”
“Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness.”
“Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?”
“The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.”
“I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.”

Source : "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.
“I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him Dumbo. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they've started calling me Mrs. Dumbo. You can't even tell he's got curly hair anymore. There's nothing left to run my fingers through. Just this weird blond AstroTurf sprouting out of his skull.”

Source : Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.60, Simon and Schuster
“I almost canâ€™t believe Iâ€™m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships donâ€™t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.”
“Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.”

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