"Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Song Quotes #Voice Quotes #Goal Quotes

“We canâ€™t change history, but we can create the future.”
“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”

Source : Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1927-1931”, p.64, Alfred Adler Institute
“If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.”
“You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.”
“And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.”
“It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.”
“I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.”
“Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.”

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