Cliburn Pianist Quotes

#1. Suddenly living in the Zombie apocalypse didn't feel like the seventh circle of hell It felt possible and full of potential

Rachel Higginson

#2. Create always: As God has seen fit in His perfection to give you such abilities, work and share of your gifts.

Duane Hewitt

#3. My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh
anything but work.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. I wore glasses my whole life, but then I got Lasik eyeball surgery, and I fixed that.

Ryan Eggold

#5. Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

Amiri Baraka

#6. Yes, Miss Manette is going to be married. But not to an Englishman; to one who, like herself, is French by birth. And speaking of Gaspard (ah, poor Gaspard! It was cruel, cruel!), it is a curious thing that she is going

Charles Dickens

#7. To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

Samuel Johnson

#8. You don't love anyone either. An argument could be made that you only ever do one of three things to the people closest to you: make enemies of them, kill the people they love, or get them killed. Careful. You're on thinner ice than you've ever been with me.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

Noah Baumbach

#10. When you approach every job enthusiastically in a spirit of friendly cooperation, you distinguish yourself from the vast majority of people.

Napoleon Hill

#11. Instead of doing 'Af-for-mations' where you are praying FOR something, do 'Af-FROM-mations' where you are praying FROM the realization that you already are whole and complete and already have everything within you.

Derek Rydall

#12. At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

Dave Franco

#13. We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.
Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.
While the media elite declare what to think,
I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

Otep Shamaya

#14. That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.

David F. Swensen

#15. Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil ... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

Maimonides