Mar 9, 2010 
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin
Do yourself and the world a favor: align your life with your passion
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No Comments “If you have some daily anguish from some cause that’s not really your fault – a rotten family, bad health, nowhere looks, serious money problems, nobody to help you, minority background … rejoice!
These things are your fuel.”
—Helen Gurley Brown
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anais Nin
In modern recording one of the biggest problems is that you’re in a world of endless possibilities.
So I try to close down possibilities early on.
I limit choices.
I confine people to a small area of manoeuvre.
There’s a reason that guitar players invariably produce more interesting music than synthesizer players: you can go through the options on a guitar in about a minute, after that you have to start making aesthetic and stylistic decisions.
This computer can contain a thousand synths, each with a thousand sounds.
I try to provide constraints for people.
—Brian Eno
It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see.
The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Anais Nin
“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
- Arthur Koestler
Ask yourself one simple question:
“If I could wake up every morning, excited to face the day and eager to get to work, what would a day like this look like?”
- Unk.
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin
I think survival is at stake for all of us all the time…every poem, every work of art, everything that is well done, well made, well said, generously given, adds to our chances of survival by making the world and our lives more habitable.
— Philip Booth
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