Michael Schenker Quotes

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Michael Schenker

• Hours
• Twenties
• Selflessness

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• I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Would

• For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Different
  • Alone

• Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Remember
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Job
  • Try
  • Circumstances

• The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Perfect
  • Justice
  • Punishment

• If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Rest
  • Ourselves
  • Feminine

• When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • People
  • Perfection

• If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • World
  • Why
  • Girl

• In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Business
  • Competition

• In 1934 people were crazy and there was great enthusiasm for Hitler. We had to try and find that with our camera.

  

  Leni Riefenstahl
  • People
  • Great
  • Crazy

• To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Cold

• Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Life
  • Done
  • German

• As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.

  

  Kallistos Ware
  • Value

• Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Desire

• I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Trying
  • Cool
  • Rock

• You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Violence
  • Planet

• If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Writing
  • True
  • Song

• When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day...I warm up for an hour before a gig.

  

  Art Farmer
  • Practice
  • Hours
  • Gig

• In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.

  

  Gerald Weinberg
  • Computer
  • Production
  • Buying

• O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Home
  • Free
  • Calm

• I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

  

  Michael Schenker
  • Hours
  • Twenties
  • Selflessness