Benedict of Nursia Quotes

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

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• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• I'll be kicked out before I rust out.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Before
  • Out
  • Rust

• Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Create
  • Dangerous

• I'd much rather wear out than rust out.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Wear
  • Rather
  • Rust

• I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Family
  • Rich
  • Careful

• To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Perfect
  • Human
  • Emotion

• I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Universe
  • Careful

• After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Knows

• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Search
  • Questions

• Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!

  

  An Na
  • Cutting
  • I Can
  • Half

• I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Should

• When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Good
  • Age
  • Used

• I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Men
  • Careful

• I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Why
  • Past
  • Forget

• To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

  

  Conrad Hall
  • Control
  • Images
  • Instrument

• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Risk

• The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Way
  • President
  • Instrument

• Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Careful
  • Demons
  • Throw Away

• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Instrument
  • Obedient
  • Goose

• I'm nothing without God.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • God
  • Nothing
  • Without

• I find that when I'm under pressure, I work really well, but then you have those days where you sleep for four hours because you drive to a venue overnight and arrive there the next day, and you're cranky and not dealing with it very well.

  

  Jean-Philip Grobler
  • Work
  • Pressure
  • Well

• The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Influence
  • Author
  • Instincts

• The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Act
  • Works
  • Principle

• Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • Careful
  • Instrument
  • Rust