Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes
I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.Mstislav Rostropovich
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Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
Adam Baldwin -
I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
J. J. Watt -
As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.
Natasha Trethewey -
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
Zac Posen -
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
Man Ray -
Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.
Brian Tracy
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Allen Tate -
In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.
David Hoffman -
In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.
Vance Packard -
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
Epictetus -
Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
William Hazlitt
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.
Yousuf Karsh -
All difficulties are easy when they are known.
William Shakespeare -
The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso -
Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.
William Bernbach -
It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
Why is silence so worthy of suspicion? You can choose to talk or choose to not talk.
Cate Kennedy -
To cite one well-known example of this ignorance of Jewish customs: Mark 7:3 indicates that the Pharisees “and all the Jews” washed their hands before eating, so as to observe “the tradition of the elders.” This is not true: most Jews did not engage in this ritual. If Mark had been a Jew, or even a gentile living in Palestine, he certainly would have known this.
Bart Ehrman -
The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.
Bette Lord -
Either get on the boat or get off the boat.
Bonnie Canino -
I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
Mstislav Rostropovich