#ten

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it. ↗

— Gene Ween

#christopher #cross #i #like #proud

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting. ↗

— Gene Ween

#advance #ask #been #bunch #call

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. ↗

— Andre Weil

#consistent #devil #exists #god #mathematics

Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#better #even #gotten #incredible #singer

Humility is attentive patience. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attentive #humility

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attention #capable #giving #need #people

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. ↗

— Simone Weil

#ecstasy #fullest #highest

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ↗

— Simone Weil

#compassion #difficult #him #just #know

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ↗

— Simone Weil

#beings #degree #due #effectively #equal

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

#humility #intellectual #less #more #nor