Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will
David FosterRead
The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...
Interpretation
True freedom is the ability to care for others.
In this quote, David Foster recognizes that the essence of freedom transcends personal liberty; it highlights the moral obligation we have towards others. Authentic freedom is not solely about autonomy or self-interest, but rather encompasses the capacity to empathize and genuinely care for the wellbeing of those around us, suggesting that our connections to others define the depth of our freedom.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of community service.
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will
I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.
CPR to those elements of whatβs human and magical that still live and glow despite the timesβ darkness.
We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.
Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality β there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth β actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.
I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.
The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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