"Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving forâ€”for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

George Balanchine

#Saving Quotes #Holding Back Quotes

“No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.”
“My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.”
“AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.”
“Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.”
“I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.”
“Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.”
“Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.”

Source : 1950 The Liberal Imagination, preface.
“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”

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