"Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are."

-- Laurence J. Peter

#Humility Quotes #People Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.”
“Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythmsâ€”rarely if ever in simple straight lines.”
“What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.”
“My songs examine and explore little specific emotions or situations or stories... They're kitchen table songs, like a conversation between me and one other person. It's almost like an alien has been sent to get emotional samples from human beings and put it all together on a record.”
“It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.”
“It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.”
“What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?”
“When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”

Source : Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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