"The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly."

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Lawrence Welk

#Successful Quotes #Trying Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.”
“Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.”
“Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.”
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

Source : Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)
“On my second space walk, I was riding the Canadarm, heading down toward the payload bay of the space shuttle, and I could see the space shuttle highlighted against the Earth in the background, and there was this black, infinite, hostile void of space. I remember looking down at the Earth and thinking, "Beneath me is a 4Â½-billion-year-old planet, upon which the entire history of the human species has taken place." That was an incredibly humbling moment, and I had a bit of an epiphany.”

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“I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.”

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“The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.”
“No prayer!--No faith!--No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!--Little faith!--Little Christ in the heart.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.152, Regent College Publishing

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