I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.
The magic happens when you find the sweet spot where your genuine interests, skills, and opportunity intersect.
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities. . . in the clashes of difference.
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic
Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.
Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.
Need is not quite belief.
If you're callin' 'bout my heart, it's still yours I should've listened to it a little more Then it wouldn't have taken me so long To know where I belong