Benjamin Zander Quotes
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
India de Beaufort -
The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
Vera Wang -
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner -
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
Kate Forsyth -
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
Randy Pausch -
People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.
Kat Dennings -
Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'
Naomi Wolf -
I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
Lana Del Rey -
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
Nathan Fillion -
I love Baltimore. It is a city with a giant heart and has remained one of my favorite places to keep returning to on tour. It is unique and beautiful, and you can't mistake it for anywhere else in the world - Baltimore is one hundred percent Baltimore.
Kevin Morby
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I feel as though, as an actor, you can only make brave choices when you're acting with people that you're so relaxed with that you can make a mistake.
Jaime Murray -
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
Eric Allin Cornell -
When I make a mistake once, it's usually not going to happen again.
Brock Osweiler -
In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
Brian May Queen -
I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.
Amity Gaige -
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
D. H. Lawrence -
Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.
Bob Marley -
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.
Adolf Anderssen -
It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
Christopher Reeve -
When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
Stephen Covey -
When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"
Benjamin Zander