#som

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#amateur #any #became #compose #did

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop? ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#exciting #hate #i #life #me

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#city #could #days #extraordinary #find

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#average man #different #hardest #man #something

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#even #know #ladder #lot #middle

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#cash #flow #good #greatest #ideas

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#absorb #address #afford #class #continue

Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#deformed #describe #had #investigate #light

And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#carry #charge #educating #encouraging #harming

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#around #eyes #fact #go #hmm