Quotes by Authors - Page 134

Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain
When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G.K. Chesterton
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Jules Combarieu
Music is another planet.
Alphonse Daudet
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
John Updike
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
George Eliot
Handel was a man of the world but Bach was a world of a man.
Arnold Stevenson
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke
Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.
Frank McKinney
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
Gail Sheehy
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Some people change their ways when they see the light others when they feel the heat.
Caroline Schoeder
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Some people change their ways when they see the light others when they feel the heat.
Caroline Schoeder
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
Gail Sheehy
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Margot Asquith
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
Daniele Varè
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
O. J. Simpson
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
Eric Hoffer
There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment and the hope of reward.
John M. Wilson
A man who is afraid will do anything.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
John F. Milburn
What allows us as human beings to psychologically survive life on earth with all of its pain drama and challenges is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara De Angelis
When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Brenda Ueland
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash
What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.
Eleanor H. Porter
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Marge Piercy
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck
What you praise you increase.
Catherine Ponder
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you they will honor and serve you.
Mary Kay Ash
There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
Selma Lagerlöf
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Helen Hunt Jackson
There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
A loafer never works except when there is a fire then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
Edgar Watson Howe
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Louis L'Amour
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
Mary Kay Ash
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Eric Hoffer
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful rich and famous but if those are our goals we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
Phyllis Whitney
Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
T.S Eliot
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living a support in misfortune an education or future security.
Sylvia Porter
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart
To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder convince yourself that if you miss it you will be embarrassed and poor.
Jack Nicklaus
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Mary Kay Ash
Everyone expects to go further than his father went everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
William Allen White
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison