Curt Sachs Quotes
The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
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There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.
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The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing.
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And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
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Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch.
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
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We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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An understanding of beauty and enthusiasm for it are one and the same.
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If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
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Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.
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In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows. Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
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And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
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Film is anti-language.
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The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.
