#advanced

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#bach #began #compose #fifteen #had

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. ↗

— James Madison

#agriculture #america #arts #encouraged #had

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#attention #correct #each #his #improve

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#appreciation #before #came #deeper #during

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#after #biochemistry #class #course #degree

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#any #earthly #force #old #old woman

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#advanced #awkward #being #creative #creative life

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advanced #been #bewilderment #changed #exhilaration

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#caution #enough #enriched #foolish #idealists