"First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice."

-- Oscar Peterson

#Men Quotes #Practice Quotes #Two Quotes

“It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.”
“Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.”
“The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.”
“Food is life. Food is also very sensual, and in Pushing Daisies, pie being reflective of life and a man who was disconnected from the living but could bring the dead back to life being a pie maker felt like I got the symbolism of food as life.”
“I threw a lot more curveballs in college and the minor leagues. Up here, they're looking for that pitch. A curveball is more recognizable out of the hand than a fastball or changeup. They're taking them or hitting the mistakes I make with them. I don't want it to be so recognizable. I'll have to work with that because that was my pitch.”
“Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.”

Source : Ferenc Molnár (1925). “Prisoners: a novel”
“Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?”

Source : George Henry Boker (1864). “Poems of the War”, p.169
“I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college.”

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