#elf

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#down #focus #idea #itself #just

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#been #briefly #circumstances #country #day

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#culture #cultures #destroy #force #fragile

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#credit #designs #frequent #god #justification

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey. ↗

— Vince Gill

#beat #better #everything #good #i

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#doing #feel #really #see #things

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#development #form #impact #intuitive #itself

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#force #i #i believe #i believe that #itself

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud. ↗

— Wes Borland

#brand new #discussions #down #funniest #good

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ↗

— M. C. Escher

#itself #who #wonder #wonders