Paul Simon Quotes
You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.
Quotes to Explore
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.
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It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.
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If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.
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Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.
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Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.
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What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.
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We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
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A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.
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I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.
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When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.
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After it is said and done about who does what on the Batman assembly line, I do not underestimate all of the help I've received.
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
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But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.
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Many of our patients are barely aware of their breath, so learning to focus on the in and out breath, to notice whether the breath was fast or slow, and to count breaths in some poses can be a significant accomplishment.
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I get to create the music live and record it on the spot as loops and samples, but then I get to recompose and manipulate what I physically played into a piece separate from the loops I just recorded.
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We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.
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You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.
