#works

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity. ↗

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#found #hadn #handle #how #i

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#anything #children #hard #i #lot

So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#comp #find #hard #horn #i

What the hell does it all mean anyhow? Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nothing comes to anything. And yet, there's no shortage of idiots to babble. Not me. I have a vision. I'm discussing you. Your friends. Your coworkers. Your newspapers. The TV. Everybody's happy to talk. Full of misinformation. Morality, science, religion, politics, sports, love, your portfolio, your children, health. Christ, if I have to eat nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day to live, I don't wanna live. I hate goddamn fruits and vegetables. And your omega 3's, and the treadmill, and the cardiogram, and the mammogram, and the pelvic sonogram, and oh my god the-the-the colonoscopy, and with it all the day still comes where they put you in a box, and its on to the next generation of idiots, who'll also tell you all about life and define for you what's appropriate. My father committed suicide because the morning newspapers depressed him. And could you blame him? With the horror, and corruption, and ignorance, and poverty, and genocide, and AIDS, and global warming, and terrorism, and-and the family value morons, and the gun morons. "The horror," Kurtz said at the end of Heart of Darkness, "the horror." Lucky Kurtz didn't have the Times delivered in the jungle. Ugh... then he'd see some horror. But what do you do? You read about some massacre in Darfur or some school bus gets blown up, and you go "Oh my God, the horror," and then you turn the page and finish your eggs from the free range chickens. Because what can you do. It's overwhelming! ↗

— Woody Allen

#family

We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

#different #different way #direction #gives #government

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#begins #finishes #genius #great #labor

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#logic #metaphysics #works

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. ↗

— Carl Jung

#depreciate #fantasy #imagination #man #origin

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗