Aesthetic Backgrounds Quotes & Sayings

When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!" — Jay-Z

Providing students with the opportunity to choose their own books to read empowers and encourages them. It strengthens their self-confidence, rewards their interests, and promotes a positive attitude toward reading by valuing the reader and giving him or her a level of control. Readers without power — Donalyn Miller

Nine years. I've been waiting nine years for this. Nine years to finally have you the way I've always needed you. — Karina Halle

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. — Henry David Thoreau

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery. — John Powell

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself. — John Dewey

It does not matter what muds you will ever know
as long as you make them A White Lotus.
Petra Hermans
Babaji
September 19, 2016 — Petra Hermans

Everything else is temptation. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

Don't become a jerk. Don't get lazy. Don't get entitled. — Jon Acuff

The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. — Fritjof Capra

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do, or what you have done, but simply because you are — Max Lucado

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song. — Ricky Martin

For home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. — Kate Morton