"The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind."

-- Carly Simon

#Bird Quotes #Mind Quotes #Sound Quotes

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

Source : Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35
“Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.”
“We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.”
“Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.”
“You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.”
“Fast growth in a start-up is a sign that customers like what you're doing.”
“Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.”
“Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.”

Source : Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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