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

• 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

• When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Children
  • Sense

• And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Issue
  • Pillars
  • Organ

• Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

  

  Nicole Krauss
  • Loneliness
  • Organ
  • Take It

• 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