Murray Schafer Quotes

#1. It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

Sean Hannity

#3. This was not chivalrously done," said Brienne when they were close enough to see it clearly. "No true knight would condone such wanton butchery.

George R R Martin

#4. The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

Italo Calvino

#5. Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

R. Murray Schafer

#6. Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.

Yuvraj Singh

#7. Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

R. Murray Schafer

#8. Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

R. Murray Schafer

#9. We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!

R. Murray Schafer

#10. There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Leo Buscaglia

#11. Yes. I'm an Israeli citizen living in a dream world; a Jewish princess in Arabia, I should have listened to my own children. For God's sake. Egypt is not my country!

Linda Ruth Horowitz

#12. God is not confined by what you can imagine.

Louie Giglio

#13. If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

Dee Hock

#14. When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.

R. Murray Schafer

#15. His wang is rubbed shiny," Josh elaborates. "For luck."
"Why are we talking about parts again?" Mer asks. "Can't we ever talk about anything else?"
"Really?" I ask. "Shiny wang?"
"Very," St. Clair says.
"Now that's something I've gotta see.

Stephanie Perkins

#16. In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

Albert Camus

#17. Where there is Dharma there is no karma. So we have to lean on Dharmic values and we have to build a Dharmic family, we have to relate to that family and we have to relate to it deeply.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#18. [T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

James Gunn