"I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am."

-- Tom Shadyac

#Essence Quotes #Divine Quotes

“I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.”
“We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.”
“Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.”
“Wish all my corpses would do that.”
“So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”
“Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.”
“Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 26, 2011.
“My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I portrayed that somehow. I was learning, and I continue to learn and I have learned.”

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