#w

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#come #determination #discouragement #energy #enthusiasm

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#bird #call #duck #i #i see

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#day #know #lock #money #next

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#advice #chance #count #down #ever

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. ↗

— Terry Riley

#eating #food #get #highest #like

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ↗

— Terry Riley

#control #everyone #kind #mode #own

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India. ↗

— Terry Riley

#already #big #career #cbs #curved

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#brave #dragons #lives #once #only

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#answers #day #distant #even #into

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#before #curtain #falling #heart #his