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  • Sometimes, even when I'm writing the lyrics, I'm not sure what I'm getting at, but then months will pass and I'll listen to it and I'll understand it completely. I think I trust myself in that most of what comes out of me will be honest. Even if it seems like it doesn't make a lot of sense, I realize that it does. It's hard to follow, and maybe there's a lot of subtext to it that nobody knows, so it makes it impossible to follow.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : A.C. Newman Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes
  • The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Faith Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Order Quotes
  • I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Children Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes