Steven Herod

“In our culture of multitasking, according to Professor Clifford Nass of Stanford University, “The neural circuits devoted to scanning, skimming, and multitasking are expanding and strengthening, while those used for reading and thinking deeply, with sustained concentration, are weakening or eroding.”5”
― Sean Covey, The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

“an intention that radiates out of you. It’s humility and gratitude. It’s about living inside the notes, and between them, and understanding that each of those notes may mean a completely different thing to each person in an audience. Once it leaves your fingertips or your lips, it’s no longer yours. Maybe it never was.”
― Ben Folds, A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

“To whom it may concern: If you are reading this, you are still alive, and since you are alive, there is still hope.”
― Faraway Poetry, Sad Birds Still Sing

“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”
― Douglas Pagels