"Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out."

-- Jeff Tweedy

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.”
“That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are pretty pictures of black boys." They're not really thinking about, like, what the whole thing is.”
“It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.”
“The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.”

Source : "What Is - Or Should Be - Media's Role In Donald Trump's Rise?". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. April 2, 2016.
“In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.”
“Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?”
“Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.”
“Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.”

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