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Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#children #education #fails #focus #frustrates

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer. ↗

— Brian Eno

#any #becomes #even #grown #inherited

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words. ↗

— Brian Eno

#been #case #few #i #i can

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #bear #blossom #bunch #created

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. ↗

— Brian Eno

#constructed #empirically #i #important #lyrics

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. ↗

— Julian Bond

#gratification #immediate #justice #many #need

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ↗

— Brian Eno

#had #history #intrusions #music #occasional

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me. ↗

— Brian Eno

#drowning #foreground #had #i #idea

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #being lied to #decided #done #eccentric

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person. ↗

— Enya

#company #events #feel #i #intact