The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.
Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.
The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...
I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.
I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!
Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
