"Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!"

-- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#Judging Quotes #Information Quotes #Accepted Quotes

“Judge if you want, we are all going to die. I intend to deserve it.”
“People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.”
“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you.Â ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”
“Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.”
“The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.”

Source : Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7
“Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.”
“Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.”
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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