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“If you have a really good idea, stick to it, but be flexible on how you get there. Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details... People who are right a lot change their mind... They have the same data set that they had at the beginning, but they wake up, and they re”
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, and discipline.”
“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself are the most important.”
“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”
“One chance is all you need.”
“Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it.”
“I always loved running; it was something you could do by yourself.”
“The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.”
“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”
“If you don't lose your temper, you have a chance to win.”
“The road to success is not a straight line; it is full of obstacles.”
“Dem höchsten Gott allein zu Ehren, Dem Nächsten draus sich zu belehren. To the glory of the most high God alone, and that my neighbour may be educated thereby.”
“Quoted in Ludwig Prautzsch Bibel und Symbol in den Werken Bachs , p. 7 [1] ; translation from Albert Schweitzer (trans. Ernest Newman ) J. S. Bach (New York: Dover, 1966), vol. 1, p. 167”
“Bei einer andächtigen Musik ist allezeit Gott mit seiner Gnaden Gegenwart. Where there is devotional music, God with his grace is always present.”
“Annotation in a copy of the Calov Bible , cited from John Butt (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Bach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 256; translation from ibid. , p. 46”
“Toccata and Fugue in D minor”
“Not brook, but ocean should be his name (Bach is the German word for brook.) Ludwig van Beethoven”
“Bach is the immortal God of Harmony. Ludwig van Beethoven”
“Leonard Bernstein discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion,”
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Letter to A. F. Oeser (9 November 1768), Early and miscellaneous letters of J. W. Goethe, including letters to his mother. With notes and a short biography”
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
“Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten. There is strong shadow where there is much light . Götz von Berlichingen , Act I”
“So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein! He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.”
“Alternative translation: So certain is it that he alone is great and happy, who requires neither to command nor to obey, in order to secure his being of some importance in the world. Götz von Berlichingen , Act I (1773), p. 39”
“I hold to faith in the divine love”
“One lives but once in the world . Clavigo , Act I, sc. i”
“Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world. Claudine von Villa Bella”
“When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash. Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar”
“Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm. Who rides, so late, through night and wind? It is the father with his child. He holds the boy in the crook of his arm He holds him safe, he keeps him warm. Der Erlkönig”
“My goal is to show that the heavenly machine is not a kind of divine living being but similar to a clockwork insofar as all the manifold motions are taken care of by one single absolutely simple magnetic bodily force, as in a clockwork all motion is taken care of by a simple weight. And indeed I also show how this physical representation can be presented by calculation and geometrically. Letter to Herwart von Hohenberg (Feb 10, 1605) Johannes Kepler, Gessamelte Werke , 15:146, quoted in Max Caspar, Kepler”