"I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Special Quotes

“I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.”
“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.”

Source : "Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland". Book by Sam Morgenstern, p. 60, 1956.
“Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.”
“Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.”

Source : "Aborting America". Book by Bernard Nathanson and Richard Ostling, 1979.
“Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle soundsÂ—in your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didnÂ’t know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.”
“I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.”
“Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.”
“One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.”

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