"I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy."

-- Kurt Masur

#People Quotes #Shy Quotes #Orchestra Quotes

“Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the next: I'll wake up and have coffee, read the news, then write a letter or two (always in longhand), then go teach, and after teaching write a bit in a journal - dreams, what I had for breakfast and lunch and why I had it, what's on the iPod, sexual habits, etc. - then read a bit, then work on a real bit of writing...you get the idea.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.”
“If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you obsess about the customer, you end up defeating your competition as a byproduct. When you are just obsessed about the competition, you end up killing yourself, because you are not focused on the customer.”
“A black woman's body was never hers alone.”
“I've heard people say that maybe we'd be better served had we lost. I was kind of wondering what profession they were in. I wouldn't want a lawyer representing me to think like that. I wouldn't want a doctor operating on me to think like that.”
“As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.”
“Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.”

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