Pianists Practice Quotes & Sayings

There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations. — Janet Asimov

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. — Robert Breault

I knew I was bound for something different. Something better. I was meant to rule the stars, not gaze at them from under our poverty. — Colleen Oakes

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label. — Sean Parker

Only you get to decide how you stand, what you stand for, and when you do it. — Penny Reid

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior. — Nora Roberts

I really like knowing secrets, and once I do know that secret, I can keep it. But if I'm on the outside and I don't know the secret, that's a different story. I will try with all my power to get the secret out of the person who knows. — Ryan Lee

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm. — Jock Sturges

Working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be the boss and work 12 hours a day. — Robert Frost

We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for. — Milton Mayeroff

Deep practice, however, doesn't obey the same math. Spending more time is effective - but only if you're still in the sweet spot at the edge of your capabilities, attentively building and honing circuits. What's more, there seems to be a universal limit for how much deep practice human beings can do in a day. Ericsson's research shows that most world-class experts - including pianists, chess players, novelists, and athletes - practice between three and five hours a day, no matter what skill they pursue. — Daniel Coyle

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody. — Aimee Teegarden

We love with all our heart, in every way that we can love but the heart is not burdened. We learn to keep it light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on Life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when death and seeming endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes. It allows Life to be lived in the safe, fertile, and still inner space where it grows stronger and more compelling every day. — Donna Goddard

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. — Robert Rauschenberg

I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good enough to get in, they were good enough to learn a new instrument. They felt sorry for pianists being alone in the practice room all the time, and they really wanted to socialize us pianists. — Zeena Parkins