Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each is vying with the others for dominance, but in the end, in tragedy, most of these voices will die, to be replaced by the yet more vigorous voice of a younger generation.
Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.
At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.