"I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right."

-- Elvin Jones

#Music Quotes #People Quotes #Done Quotes

“I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.”

Source : Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media
“It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.”
“And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.”
“We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.”
“Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!”
“I feel like I envision a lot of hamstrings getting pulled and a lot of bumps and bruises out there.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com
“Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.”

Source : Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
“Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.”

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