“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.” CountryAbleLastsGenerationsSittingGainsRadioButtonsBangingOsmosis Author:Dwight Yoakam
“Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.” IfsAbleBeautifulHugeListeningSittingWindowSmall ThingsMake You HappyBeautiful MusicBeautiful Picture Author:Kathleen Hanna
“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.” PeopleKnowsFeelsShouldMindStoriesFeelingsHappensWould BeAbleSidesEmotionNeededCapableSittingConcernedTablesOneselfIntellectNobleAffectedColossal Author:John Ruskin
“I was obsessed with the idea of sitting next to someone and playing a game that we were both competing in, and we were also competing with the computer. That was mind-blowing to me at that time. It was just so cool to think about the computer being able to play with us, and then also [for] us to compete.” ThinkingMindIdeasPlayAbleNextGamesComputerSittingObsessedCompetingMind Blowing Author:Robin Hunicke
“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.” WritingLittlesDoneAbleMemoriesPiecesSittingZeroSitting DownTranceTrickery Author:John Hodgman
“As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.” ThinkingWorldIdeasWarAbleTreeSeaModernQuietSittingRiversFishesRadioBoatLakesFishingPoolModern WorldAeroplanesWillow Trees Book:Coming Up for Air Source: Coming Up for Air
“Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” KnowsLittlesReasonMomentsAbleLostPerfectPoorForeverDoubtBlessingBirdSittingDown AndWingsCeaseSatHave FaithPeterCriedLiving ThingsLost FaithShunning Book:The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition) Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)
“The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.” KnowsSelfMomentsAbleSchoolAbilityKnow HowFailingRocksSittingDesertSelf KnowledgeConfrontationTeachableSitting AloneTeachable Moments Author:Richard Rohr