"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

Cocteau, Jean on music
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"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music."

Holiday, Billie on song and singing
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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

Parker, Charlie on music
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"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."

Joel, Billy on music
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"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead."

Stravinsky, Igor on music
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"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."

Beecham, Sir Thomas on music
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."

Camus, Albert on music
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"Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied."

Austen, Jane on pity
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"How badly do you want it?"

Allen, George E. on want   

"Make sure you want it enough."

Kingdon, Frank on want
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"I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now."

Prince, Ray on want
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"One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more."

Boiste on confidence
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"Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk."

Gibb, Jack on self-confidence
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"A timid question will always receive a confident answer."

Darling, Lord on questions
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"I am confident. I never give up."

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez on perseverance
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"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."

Tracy, Brian on expectation
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"I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts."

Potter, Alice on optimism
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"Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure."

Hare, J. C. on confidence   

"I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance."

Carner, JoAnne on confidence   

"I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity."

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord on trust
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"There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."

Unitas, Johnny on confidence
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"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

O'Brien, Michael on confidence
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"Danger breeds best on too much confidence."

Corneille, Pierre on confidence
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"Confidence is courage at ease."

Maher, Daniel on confidence
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"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."

Herbert, George on skill   

"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle."

Williamson, Marianne on miracles
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"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on grace
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"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on grace
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"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."

Hazlitt, William on grace
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"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."

Joubert, Joseph on grace   

"Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on secrets   

"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."

Smith, Stan on confidence
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"Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence."

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of on superstition   

"Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation."

Unknown, Source on confidence
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"Confidence is a very fragile thing."

Montana, Joe on confidence
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"The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it."

Garafola, Frank M. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

Eliot, George on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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