Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

I do not see scales as abstract.

It is normal to be nervous.

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

Running through things because you are familiar with them breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that.

Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.

The world is changing very profoundly.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.'

The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.