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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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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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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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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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
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Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.
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The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.
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There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.
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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.
