"Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins."

-- Carly Simon

#Annie Quotes #Bigs Quotes #Stage Quotes

“I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.”
“The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.”
“We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.”
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946
“Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.”
“Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.”
“What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.”

Source : "'Eureka moments' and other myths about tech innovation" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2010.
“An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.”

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