Way Quotes
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It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set.
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I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
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I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.
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He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?" "Like what?" "Like hitting on you." "Ew. No, of course not. He doesn't see me that way." Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee. "What? You think he does?" "Sometimes he looks at you a little... oddly, that's all. Maybe you're right. Maybe he just wants you for your blood." "Again, Ew! What's with you this morning?" "Not enough coffee.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.
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I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.
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In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
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My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
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It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.
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Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.
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Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
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I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.
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There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.
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Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.
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Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
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I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.
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Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
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I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.
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They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.
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I believe God will make a way.
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I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.
