Quotes on Rather

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.