"Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way."

-- Carly Simon

#People Quotes #Worry Quotes #Ears Quotes

“My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.”
“An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.”

Source : Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”
“My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.”
“I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.”
“Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.”
“Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.23, University of Chicago Press
“Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.”
“The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.”

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