Director Quotes

“Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.”

“I know absolutely nothing about music.”

“Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.”

“Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.”

“One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.”

“Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.”

“Imagination creates reality.”

“The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.”

“The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.”

“You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.”

“Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.”

“The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.”

“The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome PeopleSince what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power”

“In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are”

“Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.”

“Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.”

“Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.”

“Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.”

“What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?”

“The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.”

“Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.”

“Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.”

“Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.”

“Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.”

“True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.”