"Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt."

-- Charles Fort

#Appetite Quotes #Existence Quotes #Higher Quotes

“To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points.”

Source : "The 'Fast-Food' Computer Company". Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us, not one could be the citizen of a government so constituted; for Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, certainly the three mightiest leaders in our early history, were heretics in their day, Deists, as men called them; and Garrison and Lincoln and Sumner, certainly the three mightiest in these later times, would all be disfranchised by the proposed amendment. Lincoln could not have taken the oath of office had such a clause been in the Constitution.”
“If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.”
“It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.”
“Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.”
“Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.”
“It's in the silence that I'm most able to hear the tiny voices that tell me I'm not good enough, smart enough, or cool enough. I try to hear them for what they are: my own creations. Sitting with them, letting them speak, hearing them out, and giving them back the silence that I'm now sitting in has shown me that, quite often, they shut up.”
“To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?”

Source : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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