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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Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.
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The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.
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Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
