#drift

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live. ↗

— David Levithan

#future #lonely #loner #past #motivational

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#away #country #drifted #i #i think

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#behavior #better #direction #drift #hang

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#away #drift #enough #far #gradually

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#decision #default #drift #less #more

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#adrift #alone #beginning #common #individuals

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#drifting #focus #hardly #hour #i

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#age #around #been #careful #chance

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#catastrophe #changed #drift #everything #modes

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike. ↗

— Randy Travis

#away #back #blues #coming #country