H.W. Charles Quotes
We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.
Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.
One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have.
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.
There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.
I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.
