"(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other."

-- Andres Segovia

#Teacher Quotes #Guitar Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.”
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”

Source : Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).
“I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was only there for freshman and sophomore year, and I was a bit of a brainiac.”
“I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.”
“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.135, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.”
“The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?”
“I do think that the Josianic return to the archaic form of the Passover is appropriate and, indeed, historical. Josiah does go back to a different, earlier tradition, the time of a central sanctuary in which the law code was read. But then there were accretions to the Book of Deuteronomy.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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