#om

If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same. ↗

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

#faith #fiction #hope #inspirational #women-s-fiction

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. ↗

— Brian Eno

#believe #big #decide #forget #hurdle

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever. ↗

— Brian Eno

#developing #exactly #feel #forever #get

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...' ↗

— Brian Eno

#against #anyone #because #century #child

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. ↗

— Brian Eno

#certain #complex #either #exclude #itself

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. ↗

— Brian Eno

#afterwards #again #composing #either #gardener

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play. ↗

— John Entwistle

#come #doing #get #i #mind

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach. ↗

— Brian Eno

#presents #reach #set #situation #slightly

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#been #category #describe #everyone #experience

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention spans #coming #dominant #getting #hollywood