Some songs seem to achieve ...

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don\'t mess with \'em.
Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.
 Peter Blegvad

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.
 Peter Blegvad
I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.
 Peter Blegvad