Kokkonen Opera Quotes

#1. It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?
Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

James C. Collins

#2. After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only.

Koichi Tohei

#3. I am flushed and warm.
I think I may be enormous,
I am so stupidly happy,
My wellingtons
Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red.

Sylvia Plath

#4. If you are gone then I will welcome nonexistence. There will be nothing left for me to live for.

Julie Kagawa

#5. People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

Manny Montana

#6. We need to be both conscious and competent to design products that emulate nature's life cycles, making sure that they endure and are either recycled or absorbed.

Guilherme Leal

#7. I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#8. What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

Albert Camus

#9. A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

June Jordan

#10. Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.

Mitch Albom

#11. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.
She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

Ellen Willis

#13. It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

Frederick Herzberg

#14. Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

Marianne Williamson