Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark White

People who listen to the music for the music and are adventurous in their playing tend to dig it, those who have a narrower perspective don't.

Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

Mark White

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

Xun Zi

A person is born with a liking for profit.

Xun Zi

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Xun Zi

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Xun Zi

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

Xun Zi

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Xun Zi

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Chamfort

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

Michael Klim

People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise.

Luigi Pirandello

Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences

Maurice Cheeks

Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bertrand Russell

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Sergei Krikalev

We need another shuttle and many more Soyuz's to visit the station,

Elaine Elliott

Langhorne pretty much had her way. We are what we are in terms of our size. We're not talking about shutting her down.

Rene Burri

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

Ron Gardenhire

I won't shut him down unless he wants to be shut down.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Frank Robinson

He could be shut down, or go to the bullpen,

Jimmy Epperly

Basically, Woods shut us down in the middle.

Andy Scott

He's a tremedous player. We shut him down, but everyone else scored.

Kevin Roberts

If we need to shut down, we're prepared.