"I wish that I was where I am."

-- Gertrude Stein

#Self Esteem Quotes #Wish Quotes #Esteem Quotes

“The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.”
“When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy.”
“Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.”
“Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.”
“In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.”

Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.
“You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.”
“That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'”
“I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could have literally been the thing that saved them, but I would never know that.”

Source : Source: gothamist.com

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