"Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic."

-- John Henry Jowett

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“Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.”
“Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often, success is built on hundreds - or thousands - of very small breaks. When I decided that I was definitely going to pursue a career as a film composer, I decided I was going to beat my head against that particular wall until something broke.”

Source : "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.
“Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!”

Source : Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.54, Crown Business
“Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.”
“To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep”

Source : Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany (2005). “We Who Are About To...”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press
“Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.”

Source : Tanya Huff (2007). “Blood Trail”, p.31, Penguin
“An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.”
“There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.”

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