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

• 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

• A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Poet
  • Achieved
  • Backdrop

• You can't ask a guy like me why I performed. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Money
  • Death
  • Scared

• Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.

  

  Bix Beiderbecke
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Humor

• It's great to finally win here in Japan. We had a very strong car. Ever since we got off the plane, the car has been responding well.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Car

• Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Understanding
  • Wonder

• It's impossible for five people to have the exact same ambitions all around.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Impossible
  • 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