All Work And No Play famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?

  • How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

  • The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.

  • B2uties are the most precious thing to me in this world.

  • Death is birth into the realm of the spirit.

  • The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

  • Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing

  • Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

  • Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

  • Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.