Mikulas Kravjansky Quotes & Sayings

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. — Henry Petroski

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being. — Herbie Hancock

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us — Rainer Maria Rilke

He had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over. — Larry McMurtry

Snow. Falling snow is what brought us together. That and his hurried life, which collided us in the first place. — Alessandra Torre

The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article. — Jon Weisman

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

YOU CAN TRUST YOUR LOVE ONE, BUT NOT EVERYONE AROUND THEM. — Marlon Roxas

You broke your own moral code. I figured if someone like you would fight for me, I might actually be worth something. — Tarryn Fisher

She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route.
Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love. — J.D. Robb