Paul Shaffer Quotes

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

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• The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Giving

• The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Mathematics
  • Schools
  • Presentation

• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • City
  • Consideration

• We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • People
  • Rock
  • Weird

• I have a sweet tooth. I love dessert, and if somebody makes me one, I'm going to have it.

  

  Sarah Rafferty
  • Sweet
  • Dessert

• No ends, simply means.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Ends
  • Means

• Success is more about doing the things you know you should do than discovering the secrets you don't yet know.

  

  Darren Rowse
  • Should
  • Secret
  • Discovering

• The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Reality
  • Common
  • Victim

• Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Children
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.

  

  Emily Susan Rapp
  • Life
  • Think
  • Fear

• Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Political
  • Way
  • Revolution

• One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.

  

  Ugo Mochi
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Children
  • Book
  • Mean

• Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Problems
  • Something
  • Because

• I read this book a few decades ago, on a trip to some of the territories of the old Byzantine Empire, during which an emotional relationship came to an emotionally draining end, so it may retain some of the hectic inanity of my personal life, but great works are fractal, reflecting both our grand ambitions and our petty failures.

  

  Alexander Jablokov
  • Book
  • Failures
  • Ambitions

• I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

  

  Paul Shaffer
  • Ambitions
  • Organ
  • Pedals