Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Johannes Brahms
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Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind
JOHANNES BRAHMS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in...
JOHANNES BRAHMS We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anythi...
JOHANNES BRAHMS If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
JOHANNES BRAHMS Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Bee...
JOHANNES BRAHMS Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the ra...
JOHANNES BRAHMS The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's conce...
JOHANNES BRAHMS It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the t...
JOHANNES BRAHMS What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other pe...
JOHANNES BRAHMS Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in...
JOHANNES BRAHMS I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
JOHANNES BRAHMS A symphony is no joke.
JOHANNES BRAHMS We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new o...
JOHANNES BRAHMS Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing
Under the sky's gray arch;
Smiling I watch the...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
ABRAHAM CAHAN The thorns he spares when the rose is taken;/ The rocks are left when he wastes the plain./ The wind...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
TAURUS MORGAN My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of ...
KLAUS SCHULZE The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
BENNETT CERF man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
BLAISE PASCAL My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibi...
WARIS AHLUWALIA Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
BLAISE PASCAL Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed
BLAISE PASCAL For I inhabit the spaces in between, where auras mix and hearts reach out and knowing hovers, and wh...
THE WIND SOPHIA IN FEATHERFOOT Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picni...
TOM STOPPARD The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passe...
AESOP Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
JOSEPH ADDISON Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
WARIS AHLUWALIA A man's faith can go down to zero without being shaken by doubt
HENRI DE LUBAC The end point of inspiration must not just be mere words, but also thoughts and ideas
SUNDAY ADELAJA The end points of inspiration must not just be mere words, but also thoughts and ideas
SUNDAY ADELAJA Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
IMMANUEL KANT Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.
ALANIS MORISSETTE There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodim...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The streets are empty. Wind skims the voids keeping neighbors apart, as if grazing the hollow of a c...
ANDREW HUSSIE If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into...
DOUGLAS SIRK A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB I wanted to bring the hand craftsmanship back to making Canadian whisky. It's very much an art as fa...
JOHN HALL Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
SIOUX SAYING With the wind that was blowing, I didn't see how he could throw strikes, but he did. I'm very proud ...
JOEY KALMUS That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces...
ELLIOTT CARTER Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly b...
ELIZABETH STROUT What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the pa...
BRIAN GREENE Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapp...
LAUREN OLIVER Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to ...
JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER A myth without a voice is like a dandelion without a breath of wind.
No way to spread the seeds...
V.E. SCHWAB I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration ...
FEDERICO FELLINI Where is the flower which blooms without getting soaked in the rain and where is the flower that blo...
SAYING OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
ELLEN GLASGOW To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
WARREN R. AUSTIN What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this...
STACEY SNIDER The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the cr...
SAID NURSI Hey Johannes, send some forwards, midfielders and defenders back here.
COLLIN WALCH It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE We take pride in the unique craftsmanship - it's elegant and it's flashy.
PAUL WALL The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy
madness of poetry without the ins...
JUNIUS My inspiration is ART. . . Because without ART we would just be stuck with reality.
DANIEL ROBERT LYNCH Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
ZEUXIS Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind
without rain.
BIBLE Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his ...
SARAH DUNANT Thus the great wind, the afflatus, gave breath and turbulence to all life; and inspiration clung to ...
RICHARD BECKHAM II These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, with...
JUNIUS A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
LEON TEC Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.
DAVID ARCHULETA Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it no...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it no...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Love is like wind to a sail, you won’t get anywhere without it; abandon ship, if you are not in th...
SCOTTIE SOMERS [Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the...
PAUL S. MINEAR There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin ...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letti...
EUGEN HERRIGEL To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality...
ERIC HOFFER What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any d...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give
BIBLE The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling...
ZAINAB SALBI It was a hate crime. My daughter is very shaken up.
ROBERT OWENS Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actu...
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self ...
RICHARD ROHR It did have wonderful craftsmanship. The detail fortunately was not stripped.
GREG HALL Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off
DENIS DIDEROT Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
DENIS DIDEROT
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HELEN C. JOHANNES Blood answers blood, especially that given for the sake of others.
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JOHANNES DIRK VAN DER MEER