#yin

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#falling #staying #water #you

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#buddy #cameras #career #everyone #mother

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#good #had #hero #i #i wish

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#best #better #even #fatherhood #job

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#character #contributing #funny #guy #had

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anyone #anything #being #california #end

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#every #i #i think #music #own

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #genius #imagination #inherited #lying

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best. ↗

— James C. Collins

#best #company #falls #historical #just

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#definitely #free #freely #i #level