Eldemire Shearer Quotes & Sayings

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind. — Glenn Gould

One age might pass over what another prized, and the next age might then revere it — Deborah Meyler

We learn from education, experience and people. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We spent an hour together this morning trapped in a box with no way out. And you know what I realized that hour?" "What?"
"I kind of liked a world where it was just you and me — J.M. Darhower

The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are. — Eckhart Tolle

Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian. — Duke Ellington

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said ... One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy ... — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel