"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."

-- Robert Collier

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Success Quotes

“It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people. We accept that some people don't like heavy metal, but we can't let them convince us that it's negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times. Â Â Â Â â€œWhether there's any 'subliminal effect' from the court, I don't know, but we certainly couldn't let it interfere with our creativity.”
“Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.”

Source : Lucy McCormick Calkins, Lucy Calkins (1991). “Living Between the Lines”, Heinemann Educational Books
“And now I was seeing that there was something really cool about that family. All of them. They were just...real. And who were we? There was something spinning wickedly out of control inside this house. It was like seeing inside the Baker's world had opened up windows into our own, and the view was not a pretty one. Where had all this stuff come from? And why hadn't I ever seen it before.”
“There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
“I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.”
“A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.84, Yale University Press
“What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up”
“.....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.”

Source : Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.73, Penguin

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