"Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound."

-- Clara Schumann

#Winning Quotes #Self Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.”
“Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!”
“I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.”
“I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.”
“In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.”
“The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.”
“In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.”

Source : Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.95, Routledge
“Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.”

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