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've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Business
  • Body
  • Bigger

• 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

• A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Society
  • Groups

• 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

• The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

  

  Nathan M. Pusey
  • Teacher
  • Facts
  • Task

• The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Real
  • Differences
  • Land

• We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Poetry
  • Generation
  • Minds

• I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Responsible
  • Generations
  • Consider

• We must remember that failure gives us chances to grow, and we ignore those chances at our own peril.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Remember
  • Failure
  • Ignore

• 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