"When you play, never mind who listens to you."

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Source : Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10

Robert Schumann

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“It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.”

Source : Hendrik Willem van Loon, Robert Sullivan (2013). “The Story of Mankind (Updated) (Liveright Classics)”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company
“I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.”
“If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”
“When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!”
“I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'”
“Thanks to the race-day adrenaline rush, any pace will feel easier than normal. So make a conscious effort to hold back in the early miles.”
“When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.”
“When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon â€“ when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be solved, and solved quickly, by his presidency â€“ the outcome is both predictable and tragic. That is not the way to engage social change in a democracy. And it is not the way to help democracy itself survive and thrive. Democracy is a non-stop experiment. Each generation must help sustain it, which means being in it day-by-day for the long haul.”

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