Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles Ives
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
James Thurber
You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.
Taylor Lautner
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Jean Rostand
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
Rachel Weisz
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
Robert Morgan
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Paul Simon
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
Bo Bennett
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
Fay Wray
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
Prince William
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
William J. Clinton
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
Azar Nafisi
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.
Jeffrey Kluger
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.
Jamie Muir
We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
Dennis Prager
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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