Instruments Quotes
1542 quotes by 1167 authors
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The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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Why can't I go to Idris with you, then? Because it's not safe for you there O and it's safe for me here? I've been…
— Cassandra Clare
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Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real…
— John Connolly
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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They…
— Ray Bradbury
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Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
— Mother Teresa
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Why would you train an instrument of destruction? (Jericho) We all choose our destinies. Our birth doesn’t dictate our future unless we allow it. (Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
— George F. Kennan
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Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those…
— Jandy Nelson
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Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an…
— Paul Brunton
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Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a…
— Norman Doidge
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Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up,…
— Markus Zusak
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The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and…
— Daniel Handler
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People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link…
— Charles Stanley
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The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That…
— John Steinbeck
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I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the…
— Daniel Defoe
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My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All…
— Fernando Pessoa
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No, I don't, like, play an instrument or anything.I'm just...well, you saw me at the beginning there. I was the guy that fell down and…
— David Wong
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The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must…
— Oliver Sacks
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