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.
Quotes to Explore
-
For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive 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.
-
Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
-
Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
-
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.
-
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
-
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
-
To the confusion of our enemies.
-
Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
-
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.
-
I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.
-
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.
-
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
-
A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.
-
Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.
-
You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose.
-
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.
-
Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
-
You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
-
So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.
-
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
-
When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
-
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.
-
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.
