"Study Bach. There you will find everything."

-- Johannes Brahms

“Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And the untested is uncertain. It is frightening-even”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.99, Canongate Books
“Change means movement. Movement means friction.”
“There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things.”
“One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.”
“Iâ€™ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.”
“I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.”

Source : Elizabeth Jane Howard (2012). “Getting It Right”, p.240, Pan Macmillan
“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”
“I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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