"travel is compost for the mind"

-- Martha Gellhorn

#Mind Quotes #Compost Quotes

“People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.”
“I just want [my daughter Isabelle] to know that she's heard. Really heard, because I feel like that is what we all really want. When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be. I see you, I hear you, I'm with you as you are.”
“Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story”
“I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
“When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.”
“Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.”

Source : Donald Grant Mitchell (1851). “Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart”, p.127
“It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.”

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