"It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value."

“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”

“I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.”

“Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.”

Source : "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.

“The soul is the weariest part of the body.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

“Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.”

“My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

“I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I'm not very edgy.”

“Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?”