#things

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#afraid #ashamed #errors #find #his

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#comedy #inescapable #laugh #often #realization

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#come #congratulate #i #impressed #kind

You can grow without destroying the things that you love. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#grow #love #things #without #you

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#doing #e-mail #faxes #friend #got

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#between #difference #i #only #paint

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#great #great joy #joy #just #just be

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#apart #back #back up #being #compass

So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#cruise #eyes #going #gone #life

When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#caliber #come #come and go #go #going