"On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo."

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Source : Leopold Stokowski's statement recalled in obituaries (September 13, 1977), as quoted in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" compiled by James B. Simpson, 1988.

Leopold Stokowski

“The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his being." page 58 The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, contents which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them." page 62”
“I am a fan of Hrithik and I feel he will be a star for 30-40 years. He is really great.”
“I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.”
“We do not see with our eyes, but through them.”
“I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.”
“My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.”
“I'd rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You have to be passionate about something. Call it obsessed or whatever you want, but be obsessed about something. Obsessed people care. I'm passionate about so many things, it becomes an issue at certain points, but at least you have the ability to feel that much about something.”

Source : "We're All In This Together: Matt Cohen, Passionate Nerds and Going Meta". Interview with Lynn Zubernis, fangasmthebook.wordpress.com. February 28, 2011.
“We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.53, Transaction Publishers

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