"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are."

-- Elliott Carter

#Writing Quotes #Style Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”

Source : Murray Rothbard (2009). “Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8”, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“It makes it very hard for us to warn people about the wolves when the leaders of the sheep are associating with the wolves.”

Source : Q&A at the Strange Fire Conference at Grace Community Church, thecripplegate.com. October 17, 2013.
“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.”
“There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up”
“Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.”
“You get paid consistent with your ability to solve problems.”
“Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.”
“They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.”

Source : Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Glenn Daniel Wilson (1973). “The experimental study of Freudian theories”, Methuen Publishing

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