“I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.” IfsFeelsLittlesHardSongWrittenEffectsProduceStrangeCraftsTunesEmbarrassed Author:Ryan Adams
“All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!” ThinkingHumansHardPainYoungAnimalProduceLaborHotAnimal RightsThink TwiceMerchandiseMental Pain Author:Adela Popescu
“The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.” MindHardHelpingPastProduceMinesPoetMaterialsExpectationsTasksBasesSavedAnticipationClueGenerator Author:Daniel Dennett
“When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.” WantKindArtHardLiteratureHonestProduceDecidedAbsolutesPressureFollowingI RealizedIdeologyTrendsIdeologicalAbsolute Freedom Author:Gao Xingjian
“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.” ThinkingTwoHardProblemThreeFeltHoursProduceStrangeSevereThree TimesFatigueBreakdown Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.” KnowsShouldWritingTryingHardStoriesSeemsEasySoundKnow HowProduceSkillsSentencesMisleadTrumpetsWeird Things Author:Gail Carson Levine