"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Quality Quotes #Ability Quotes #Shortcomings Quotes

“Rock music will never die. We all know that.”
“There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.”

Source : "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 50), 1997.
“Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.”

Source : Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
“The best time to do something is when it can be done.”
“If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.”
“Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.”

Source : "'American Idol's' Haley Reinhart Talks New Album, Guest Stars (Exclusive)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 7, 2012.
“More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?”

Source : Jean Maalouf (2003). “The Healing Power of Kindness”, p.44, Twenty-Third Publications
“I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of the imagination and aren't any rules, but there are principles. The first one is that art is a process, not a product. In fact, that holds true for damn near everything we do in life. The product is just something that happens. If you're faithful to the process, the product takes care of itself.”

Source : Interview with Jean Van’t Hul, artfulparent.com. February, 2008.

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