"I was different from most young conductors today."

-- Kurt Masur

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“I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost 's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal .”
“Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.”
“Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.”
“And you couldnâ€™t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieveâ€™s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Maconâ€™s problem with Lila, Linkâ€™s with Ridley. Probably even Ridleyâ€™s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.”
“It's important to celebrate the monogram. It's the DNA of Vuitton. I think - I hope - there is an interest in the philosophy and culture of the Vuitton name. It's quite coherent and intellectual, and the products are great. These are things you will want to pass on - things you treasure.”
“The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.”
“A confidence man knows heâ€™s lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says â€” and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.”
“The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.”

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