Endris Night Quotes & Sayings

The brain is the hardware, and the mind is the software, with the totality always in action, hardware plus software. — Pearl Zhu

Your belief in love wasn't strong enough to overcome your fear of rejection. — Mulan

As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters ... What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow. — Russell Sherman

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it. — Yo-Yo Ma

Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being. — Paul Arden

The world is maintained by change - in the elements and in the things they compose. That — Marcus Aurelius

We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to outrageous pain is outrageous love. — Marc Gafni

The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants. — Martin Jacques

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose. — Jonathan Carroll

What did you say, Gram? About there being no church out here?" "I said that the sky was the roof of my cathedral and the desert was its floor and any time I paid attention, I could feel a higher power all around me. — Terri Farley

A13/ He jumps off a cliff believing he is boarding a boat skippered by his dead wife. A14/ They are both in the air force. A15/ So that she will have a reason to visit him again. Back to Contents — Kathryn Cope

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny. — Laurence Overmire

But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions. — Charles Evans Hughes

Quite so," answered the young lord. "It is the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves. — Oscar Wilde