"I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say."

-- Bill James

#Communication Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse”
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”
“A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.”

Source : Jim Trelease (2006). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition”, p.23, Penguin
“Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?”
“The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.”
“If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.”
“I'm doing interviews and there are pictures of my face, so it's not like I'm hiding who I am. As soon as you say what your name is, everybody writes that in every interview, and it kind of annoys me. My name's SOHN. It's not really much more complicated than that, and there are loads of artists in the world who have one-word names. I'd like to somehow be able to close a door somewhere.”
“True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.”

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