Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.

Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next

Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.

[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

Peace in the home is the peace for the community.

Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

I love fire. Fire is hypnotic.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.