Zwilich Concerto Quotes

#1. We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

W. Edwards Deming

#2. It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Lev Grossman

#3. Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and body is a way of being tender toward self, toward other, and toward the world. This quality of attention is inherent in our ability to love.

Pema Chodron

#4. Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.

Wally Schirra

#5. You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

Robert Grudin

#7. Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace!

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

Kahlil Gibran

#9. We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Bruce Babbitt

#10. I lay on my stomach, reached down and poked him. He rolled up. Then, feeling safe, I suppose, he slowly unrolled. He travelled a few inches in his hundred legs and I touched him again. He rolled up. Feeling sleepy, I decided to end things. My hand was going down on him when Jem spoke.

Harper Lee

#11. Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist.

Donna Tartt

#12. But imagine how he'd feel if you said that to him. It's not considering him as a person but as part of a class of inferior things.

Jo Walton

#13. I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.

Nicholas Jarecki

#14. When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.

Richard Thaler

#15. I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Robert M. Pirsig