Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecil Taylor

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• Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Confidence

• I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Difference
  • Match
  • Fresh

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Way
  • Feelings

• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Seek
  • Satisfy
  • Objective

• This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Money
  • Done
  • Changes

• Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Great
  • Life Is Hard

• I'm a huge gamer.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Huge
  • Gamer

• Jools Holland: 'Knock Knock!' Morrissey: 'I'm not in!' Jools: 'Oh, come on.' Morrissey: 'I refuse to open the door.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Door

• Reason is lost reasoning.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Lost

• In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Accomplish
  • Measured
  • Undertake

• You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.

  

  Demetrious Johnson

• I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Work
  • Long
  • Live

• I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Life
  • Business
  • Partner

• I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

  

  Dylan Thomas
  • Up
  • Work
  • Reality

• No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

  

  Agnes Smedley
  • Today

• No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.

  

  Dannel Malloy
  • Different
  • Confused
  • Presidential

• I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • Different
  • Golf

• The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Life
  • Values
  • Issues