Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
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When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
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The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.
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Vision is an intelligent form of thought
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
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The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.
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I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.
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Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
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I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
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Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.
