D. T. Max Quotes

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.

Whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours

To be struck twice by two different cyclones is unusual, to say the least.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.