"For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one."
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"I only listen to my music. I'm just analyzing it. Critical. Seeing what I like what I don't like. Say what I should have said. What I could say next time, what I should have said, things like that."
"Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences."
"A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom."
"Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation."
"I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."
"The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next."
"A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time."
"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
"When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end."
"The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself."
"There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
"You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses."
"Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood."
"The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing."
"The raw food wave has swept through, and now it is the superfoods wave. The next thing to happen will be super herbalism."
"I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will."
"In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable."
"So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?"
"I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash."