Frederic Chopin Quotes

I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

Frederic Chopin

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• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Man

• But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Me
  • Young
  • Influence

• I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worth

• You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Live
  • True
  • Dreams

• I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Relationship

• When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Free
  • Education
  • Educate

• We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • City
  • Desire
  • Chicago

• The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Design

• If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.

  

  Tony Snow
  • God
  • Promise
  • Eternity

• I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.

  

  Warryn Campbell
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Radio

• Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Power
  • Religion
  • Pastor

• One way to develop faith and confidence is simply to practice using it. If I were to ask you whether you're confident that you can tie your own shoes, I'm sure you could tell me with perfect confidence that you can. Why? Only because you've done it thousands of times! So practice confidence by using it consistently, and you'll be amazed at the dividends it reaps in every area of your life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Practice

• I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself

  

  Sean Covey
  • Giving
  • Eye
  • Leaving

• I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Music
  • Traditional
  • Bluegrass

• I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Amazed
  • Germans
  • I Don't Know