Composers Inspiring Quotes & Sayings

I just feel like I have been marked with that smell, that's why from now on, when I smell that, I'm going to remember you. - Myu — Ai Yazawa

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies. — Kristen Stewart

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming. — Marianne Williamson

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education. — Tony Danza

And it works. There have now been many studies of elite performers - international violinists, chess grand masters, professional ice-skaters, mathematicians, and so forth - and the biggest difference researchers find between them and lesser performers is the cumulative amount of deliberate practice they've had. Indeed, the most important talent may be the talent for practice itself. K. Anders Ericsson, a cognitive psychologist and expert on performance, notes that the most important way in which innate factors play a role may be in one's willingness to engage in sustained training. — Atul Gawande

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward. — Michelle Huneven

We all act because we're sure of what we want, and we believe that the actions we perform will get us what we want, but we never know anything for sure, and so all our rationales are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons. — Orson Scott Card

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book. — Erich Fromm

Who's the clown in life, the one with the two faces and characters or the persons who Laugh about them? — Jan Jansen

If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place! — Mehmet Murat Ildan