As always, I may agree, disagree, or be of divided mind about any one of these quotations, but I found all of them thought-provoking or inspiring. I hope you do as well~
“My high school counselor told me that I shouldn’t go into computer science in college because they were a fad and there wouldn’t be many jobs for computer programming in the future….”~~Paul Sterzinger
“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory…”~~Jodi Picoult
“Voice-teaching ranks among the dodgiest of all professions—worse even than management consultancy if you ask me—because it relies on processes that can’t be quantified except by result.”~~Michael White
“To fit God inside our logic is to reduce him. And a reduced God is easy to refute.”~~Don Miller
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”~~Seneca
On choosing an appropriate opera to see on a first date: “Beware of Wagner on a romantic night out. Most of the operas are too long and even if they aren’t, a sadistic director is liable to stick all three acts together to test your bladder.”~~Adrian Mourby
“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”~~Les Brown
“It takes two people to speak the truth. One to speak and another to hear.”~~Henry David Thoreau
On why you should pass on Mozart’s operas for a first date: {about Cosi fan tutte} “It will only produce arguments about sexual infidelity or at best, a debate on gender politics. Mozart is better on marital difficulties and conflict resolution rather than falling in love…{about Magic Flute} It will only add to your evening a sense of confusion that’s far from romantic. You don’t want to spend the interval with your nose in the programme reading up on Masonic ritual or Zoroastrianism. La clemenza di Tito is all about renouncing love and Il re pastore is just silly. No, Mozart is definitely not a Valentine composer.”~~Adrian Mourby
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”~~Howard Thurman
“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”~~Karl Ludwig Borne
“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”~~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Imagine what the superhero version of you would do, and do that.”~~Ze Frank