Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.
When you know and respect your own inner nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.
Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.
In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.
I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.
Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.
I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.
The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can’t fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.
If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.
But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].
If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'.
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the st...
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.
I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.
I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.
