"I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing."

-- David Finckel

#Thinking Quotes #Today Quotes #Chamber Music Quotes

“You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.”
“I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.”

Source : "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.
“An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.”
“Latin beauty means being proud of yourself and your culture; being sophisticated and beautiful; and embracing your complexion - whether you have light or dark skin - because it's gorgeous. We're such a beautiful rainbow of women.”
“[My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one day perceive an infinite number of images, and some of them are focused upon, others are barely seen out of the corner of one's eye.”

Source : Sandra S. Phillips, Daidō Moriyama, Alexandra Munroe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999). “Daido Moriyama: stray dog”, San Francisco Museum
“Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!”
“With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.”
“I think polling is the best way of gauging public opinion - doing something that's independent, that's quantitative, that doesn't give just the loud voices about how things are going; or doesn't give so called experts the notion that they know what public opinion is. I think that's what makes public opinion polling pretty important. Qualitative assessments of public opinion; going out and talking to people and understanding the nuance to what's behind the numbers. I think it's awfully important as well.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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