"Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other."

-- Raymond Burr

#Friendship Quotes #People Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”

Source : "The New Yorker" Interview, May 7, 1955.
“During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and psychologically, they were separated from their classmates. Events that seemed earth-shattering to them-- for example, who was demoted from the varsity to the junior varsity -- went almost unnoticed by the rest of the students. In many ways they were like combat veterans coming back from a small, bitter and distant war, able to talk only to other veterans.”
“Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.”

Source : "Pop Psych at Pop Tech" by Mark K. Anderson, www.wired.com. October 20, 2001.
“Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.”
“Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.”

Source : James Hervey (1762). “A Collection of the Letters of the Late Reverend Mr James Hervey ... To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Death”, p.297
“In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.”

Source : Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
“It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my experience, there have been occasions where I feel that a composer has not notated something as they meant to have it represented.”

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