"If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else."

-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Would Be Quotes #States Quotes

“Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.”
“A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.”
“Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.”
“If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.”

Source : "Alfred Brendel, A Personal 75th Birthday Selection" by Anthony Holden, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2006.
“The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.”
“The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.”
“Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.”

Source : 'Ye Wearie Wayfarer' 'Fytte 8'
“I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.”

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