Eugen Herrigel Quotes

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

Eugen Herrigel

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• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

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• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

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• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

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• The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

  

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• I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

  

  Garrett Clayton
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• Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

  

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• As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

  

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• If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

  

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• We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

  

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.

  

  Rachel Hunter
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• Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

  

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• Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• I woke last night to the sound of thunder,'How far off,' I sat and wondered.Started hummin' a song from 1962.Ain't it funny how the night moves,When you just don't seem to have as much to lose.Strange how the night moves, with autumn closin' in.

  

  Bob Seger
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• Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

  

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• Leaders of the various Iraqi elements will likely have their own militias, and there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State boundaries, governing structures, and distribution of power and resources.

  

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• We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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• I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

  

  Andre Benjamin
  • Up
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• It's a common issue that you see out there, where some families aren't as accepting of what people choose to be in their life.

  

  La La Anthony
  • People
  • Life
  • Accepting

• Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

  

  Eugen Herrigel
  • Road
  • Danger
  • Survive