"Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!"

-- Nanci Griffith

#Song Quotes #Mean Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.”
“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”

Source : Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam
“Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.”
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”
“Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.”

Source : Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”
“The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.”
“To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.”
“William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”

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