#works

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#bring #concerts #connect #each #festivals

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#got #haven #i #interest #lack

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#countrymen #forget #hand #me #nobel

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#drama #ending #generally #love #most

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#automatic #because #believed #commonly #fail

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject. ↗

— David Douglass

#field #i #i can #knowledge #none

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#focus #happens #i #like #lived

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#goal #lifetime #may #own #redneck

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#economic #freedom #general #general public #go

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#becomes #degree #exactly #fellow-men #great