Steven Herod

“Spring time in Florida is not a matter of peeping violets or bursting buds merely. It is a riot of color, in nature—glistening green leaves, pink, blue, purple, yellow blossoms that fairly stagger the visitor from the north.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

“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

“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

“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