"I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud."

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Source : "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.

Glenn Gould

#Depression Quotes #Depressing Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.”
“The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.”

Source : William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.16, tredition
“Music is poetry with personality.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 21, 2011
“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”

Source : Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”
“We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.”

Source : "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.
“If everyone spent as much time o happiness as they did on drama and anger, they'd shine a lot brighter!”
“Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition.”
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”

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