a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.
You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.
Writing is an antisocial act.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.