Lera Quotes

#1. To have a second language is to have a second soul," said Charlemagne around 800 AD. "Each language has its own cognitive toolkit," said psychologist/linguist Lera Boroditsky in 2010 AD.

Stewart Brand

#2. To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.

David Clement-Davies

#3. If she had spurned gifts from fate or God or some other earnest substitute, she would never feel it in that way. She felt like someone of whom she was fond, an old and future friend of herself, still unspent and up ahead somewhere, like a light that moves.

Lorrie Moore

#4. Conflict occurs
when two pasts step
on the toes of the present.

Lera Auerbach

#5. Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all ... The scale of sheer robbery by corporate power is enormous.

Noam Chomsky

#6. To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.

Lera Auerbach

#7. When you are feeling great, you probably don't think too much about your depression or the work that you need to do, because you want to relish that feeling of being somewhat normal again right? Well,

Robert Duff

#8. I need a whole other life not to let this one go to waste.

Lera Auerbach

#9. Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

Lera Auerbach

#10. When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?

Lucy Calkins

#11. I have inflammation of the imagination.

Lera Auerbach

#12. A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.

Lera Auerbach

#13. Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Fanny Kemble

#14. Autonomy ... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

Thomas Szasz

#15. There are only
two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers.

Lera Auerbach

#16. Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.

Lera Auerbach

#17. You can only master something by loving it.

Lera Auerbach