"The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive."

-- Albert Camus

#Demand Quotes #Deserve Quotes

“When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.”
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
“When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.”

Source : "Martin Gore on new Depeche Mode CD, Frank Ocean". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, newsok.com. March 26, 2013.
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”
“We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.”
“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite....”
“When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.”

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