Alencar Maias Quotes & Sayings

If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system. — Gwyneth Paltrow

After so many years of foolishness, you have once again had an idea, have done something, have heard the bird in your chest singing and have followed it. — Hermann Hesse

Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward. — Thomas Leonard

Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots. — Mary Norris

My trade and art is to live. — Michel De Montaigne

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day — John Wooden

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It's a plague. It's like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it.
STATE OF WONDER — Ann Patchett

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible - an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head. — Jennifer Haigh

since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present. — Erich Fromm