Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
Interpretation
Individual talents can be admirable, but when combined without harmony, they can create a chaotic outcome.
This quote highlights the idea that while everyone possesses unique skills and talents, the lack of collaboration and cohesion can lead to disarray rather than a harmonious whole. It suggests that true artistry and effectiveness come from unity and cooperation, not merely individual excellence.
In practice
This quote could be used in a team-building workshop to emphasize the importance of collaboration.
In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and always treat them from our point of view. We should observe and treat people not from our point of view but from all angles, I thought, associate with them in such a way that we can say we associate with them so to speak in a completely unbiased way, which however isn't possible, since we actually are always biased against everybody.
Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.
Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.
Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.
The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
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