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
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A symphony is no joke.
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Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch; Smiling I watch the...
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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The thorns he spares when the rose is taken;/ The rocks are left when he wastes the plain./ The wind...
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Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
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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.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passe...
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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
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin ...
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He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letti...
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To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality...
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any d...
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Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling...
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It was a hate crime. My daughter is very shaken up.
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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!
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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.
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Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
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I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
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Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
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God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The...
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It seemed like every time we got close, we gave up something big on the (defensive) end.
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Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.
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It was really nerve racking.
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the eyes with which you see God are the same eyes with which he sees you
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If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)
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To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live ...
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There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries...
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During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution ...
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Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and histo...
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الأرض تعرف كلّ شيء رغم ما يعتقد أنها تظلّ صامتة
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A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, a...
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We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have no...
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A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
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The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense org...
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فضاعة الذكريات تتوحّد مع الشعور السعيد بانتهائها
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You pathetic humans! It escapes me how you endure any trial long enough even to breed, yet here you ...
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Blood answers blood, especially that given for the sake of others.
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