Paul Hindemith Quotes

Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

Paul Hindemith

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• For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Band
  • Like
  • Task

• It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Funny
  • News

• Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Audience
  • Impossible
  • Task

• Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Politicians
  • Noise
  • General

• You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Task

• We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Task

• A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Music
  • Always
  • Noise

• I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Song
  • Ridiculous
  • Noise

• To the confusion of our enemies.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Enemies
  • Confusion

• Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Good
  • Story
  • Task

• Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Beautiful
  • Jesus
  • Storm

• And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Stop
  • Mad
  • Information

• The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Peace
  • Water

• I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Strong
  • Peace
  • Justice

• In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Work
  • Art
  • Harmony

• We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Should
  • Window
  • Noise

• A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.

  

  Facundo Cabral
  • Life
  • Noise
  • Bombs

• Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Noise

• She’d make a rude noise

  

  Courtney Milan
  • She
  • Noise

• I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Arrangements

• You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

  

  Mem Fox
  • People
  • Wonderful
  • Laughing

• The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Ruler
  • Governing

• Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

  

  Paul Hindemith
  • Confusion
  • Task
  • Noise