Clara Schumann Quotes
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Quotes to Explore
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I will keep working hard!
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.
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Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.
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Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
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For those of you who are fans of 'Agents of SHIELD,' that show has continued to grow creatively every season. I feel like last season, Season 4, was its strongest creatively yet. I'm very excited for what we have planned for Season 5.
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Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.
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There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.