"One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen."

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Johannes Brahms

#Life And Love Quotes #Gains Quotes #Finishing Quotes

“I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.”
“Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.”
“Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.”
“When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.”
“The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.”
“In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.”
“I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.”
“You can't help people that don't want to be helped.”

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