#elf

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#enough #hall #hear #never #people

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#himself #man #miserable #only #thinks

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. ↗

— May Sarton

#hide #most #need #nothing #self-respect

I don't judge myself by what someone says. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#judge #myself #says #someone

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#highlight #i #issue #reform #welfare

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#domain #doors #fellow #felt #itself

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images. ↗

— Cheri K. Erdman

#culture #diet-industry #diets #eating-disorders #self-esteem

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#am #being #book #first #frank