Quotes from the famous and em, not so famous(me).....
'Our culture has amused itself to death by more and more of less and less'.(Calvin Seenveld, Canadian artist).
'Spontaneous delight in creative activity'....mmmm
'The definition....Happiness is having more than I have now....is a deception. Use what you already have, creativity is already within you and costs nothing!'
'Music is its own reward' (Sting, 2002 Brit awards).
'The reason you practice so much is so that you will do things automatically the same way every time' (Dr W. DeVries-not the one from ayr-who installed the first artificial heart in a human being).
'Education as an institution has adopted values, attitudes and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible' (Dallas Willard, professor of philosophy, university of southern california).
'Genius is 2% inspiration and 98% perspiration........mmm
'Fear can mean- Future Events Assumed Real....don't be fearful, but be positive, expect the best...'
'Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the mastery of it'....mmm
'Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid!?!' (the bible, proverbs12;1).
'You never really fail until you stop trying!'.....mmm
'Be yourself, no matter what others say'...
'Failing to accept you will make mistakes can seriously stunt your growth!'....mmmm
'True worship comes from the heart not the mouth'....mmm
'The unexamined life is not worth living'....(Socrates)
'Our entertainment obsessed culture can hide the real potential of music, which can be used in many other ways.....for example; for recreation and fun (we are not machines and we need fum!!!!...er I mean fun!), for artistic purposes (perhaps to say something that words simply cannot express), for therapy (in alternative medicine), for education (singing a song to remember a series of facts), for love (to sing a love song to the one you love), for religious worship (most religions use music to enhance their expression of worship).....'mmm
'The largest room in the world is room for improvement!'....
'The future starts today'...the late Pope John Paul II.
'Young people are threatened...by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire....the late Pope John Paul II.
'True freedom comes not from the absence of restraint, but from the presence of discipline'.....Richard Foster.
'Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.'....Gandhi
'To be relevant is a lot harder than to be successful'.....Bono..(from the book 'bono on bono', conversations with michka assayas)
'Anyone who has no doubt that apes are our distant cousins, or that fishes and worms share a common ancestry with humans, either has not studied the wealth of evidence to the contrary...or is living in a state of denial'...Dr Vij Sodera FRCS
'Change is inevitable, growth is optional!'.......Bob Gass.
'It takes a long time to learn how to be young'.....Picasso.
'When angry, count to 100, when very angry, swear!'....Mark Twain.
'The one who overcomes others is strong. The one who overcomes oneself is mighty'...ancient taoist saying.
'The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost' ..G K Chesterton.
The Tartar tribes of central asia used to pronounce a certain curse over their enemies. They didn't hurl words calling for their enemies swords to rust or their people to die of desease. No, they said, 'May you stay in one place place forever'...If you don't work on improving yourself every day that could be your fate!
'In order to become myself I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be'.......Thomas Merton.
'One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak' .....G K Chesterton
'every journey has a purpose of which the traveller is unaware'
...D. Bonhoeffer....
'The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings'....Henri Frederick Amiel.
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