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Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#discipline #memory #art

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#always #careful #chocolates #had #make

I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible. ↗

— Angie Martinez

#i #i love #i think #incredible #jay

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artist #cat #elephant #giraffe #god

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys. ↗

— Toby Keith

#album #always #board #country #dumped

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town. ↗

— Toby Keith

#independent #independent label #into #label #labels

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#certain #common #directions #embodied #evolution

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#feeling #give #gratifying #me #mechanics

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#diminishing #i #law #really #returns

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#bank #data #get #go #good