#iv

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#company #creative #disturb #flow #public

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#brightest #calamity #confusion #darkest #furnace

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#been #constrained #creative #diminished #flows

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authors #backs #behind #dead #down

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#imprudent #more #nothing #prudence #than

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#cronkite #give #i #lot #whole

Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance…A useful gift all love’s practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #experience

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#anchor #arrived #come #continued #course

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#everywhere #god #his #like #must

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#deceived #even #from time to time #never #once