"We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart."

-- Robert Schumann

#Writing Quotes #Genius Quotes #May Quotes

“Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away.”
“We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.”
“Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?”
“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earringâ€”with immense, even startling power.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories”, p.25, Vintage
“Emerging markets are hugely important.”
“If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.
“Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.”
“Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.”

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