Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea...
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Ayn Rand
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
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Mark Twain
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if...
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Henry David Thoreau
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is...
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Unknown
I only know that I know nothing
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Socrates
More Quotes By Ernest Newman
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven Wagner Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day...
The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out.
