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"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
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"When you don't come closer to the goal and don't make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain."

"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."

"How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it."

"Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking. Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging. Jog in faith, and you will end up running. Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting. Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring."

"Nothing happens until something moves."

"There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!"

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."

"From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else."

"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."

"I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time."

"Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music."

"Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty."

"America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people."

"I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes."
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