Compose Quotes

234 quotes by 210 authors

Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition -… — Edgar Allan Poe
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to… — Marcus Aurelius
As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the… — Robert Higgs
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose),… — Moses Mendelssohn
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is… — Brian Ferneyhough
With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents… — Henri Weenink
Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species. — Lord Kelvin
You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into… — Ken Rockwell
I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me. — Gustav Mahler
Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to… — Paul Bley
Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world. — Marcus Aurelius
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose â€” there has… — Clara Schumann
One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. Itâ€™s a very satisfying, almost spiritual way to… — Sam Abell
People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the… — Robert Schumann
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except… — Aristotle
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself. — Epictetus

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