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Put your instrument into the hands of your Art and never your Art into the hands of your instrument!


Irvin Kauffman

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SUZY KASSEM When your busy trying to tie my hands. My feet has already walked into it.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN It's all in the hands. You put your fingers in your nose or mouth or eyes and get sick that way.
CHUCK GERBA And never forget my heart is always in your hands
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C. JOYBELL C. Throw your hands and pull up those in the valley to the hill. However, press your feet on the ground...
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DALE CARNEGIE Never close your hands in the face of evil fate; get up and rebel against it
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MOOSA RAHAT Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON Originality is the art of concealing your sources
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Originality is the art of concealing your source.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
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JOHN RUSKIN Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.
VISHWANATH S J The best way to handle life, is to put your life in God's hands.
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IRVIN D. YALOM I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy...
IRVIN D. YALOM I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have jus...
IRVIN D. YALOM With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this w...
IRVIN D. YALOM From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with...
IRVIN D. YALOM The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
IRVIN D. YALOM During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neig...
IRVIN D. YALOM We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of...
IRVIN D. YALOM I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations o...
IRVIN D. YALOM I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique st...
IRVIN D. YALOM Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the...
IRVIN D. YALOM The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility,...
IRVIN D. YALOM ...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN Fantasy like thought that no man could rain
Just let her reign
Run wild with her unafraid<...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack...
IRVIN S. COBB If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
IRVIN S. COBB An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
IRVIN S. COBB A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
IRVIN S. COBB As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
IRVIN S. COBB