When 93-year-old Pablo Casals was asked in an interview why he continued to practice the cello three hours a day, he replied, “I’m beginning to notice some improvement…”
If you want to understand a woman, look in her bag~~Valerie Steele
A true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence~~Amos Bronson Alcott
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed~~Vida Dutton Scudder
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form~~President Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address, 1924
You never realize what you have until it’s gone. Take toilet paper, for example~~Unknown
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children~~Marilyn Penland
When a student asked the Hungarian violinist Leopold Auer how many hours a day he should be practicing, Auer said, “If you practice with your fingers, no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.”
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new~~Ursula Le Guin
Creativity is the residue of time wasted~~Albert Einstein
Practice doesn’t make perfect: practice makes permanent~~Unknown saxophone professor
Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act~~Leonard Peltier