#ought

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#bum #doing #ever #get #going

Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#free-spirit #free-thought #madness #dreams

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#away #drag #ears #heels #manage

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#even #existence #finally #forces #important

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#california #despair #disappointment #failure #i

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#became #bohemian #brought #day #family

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. ↗

— Mark Twain

#doubt #fool #mouth #open #remain

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#buy #companies #could #free #good

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#cases #claim #domain #forgotten #goods