"The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story."

-- Byron Katie

#Positivity Quotes #Perception Quotes #Filters Quotes

“It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.”
“I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.”
“I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can.”
“I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.”

Source : Song: God Favored Me Pt. 1
“And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.”

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