"Once you go on stage you're essentially creating the world that people want to participate in. The worst thing you can do is go out on stage with the idea that you're going to communicate something you've learned and if you do it really well, they'll approve. If you go out in an approval process, you will be so nervous and so preoccupied you'll never get to the heart of what it is you want to make music with."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Thomas Hampson

#Heart Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.”

Source : Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.384, Random House
“A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.”

Source : Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for it!: how to succeed as an entrepreneur”
“This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
“I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.”
“I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.”
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
“Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.”
“The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.”

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