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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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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing that can replace self-development."
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Personal Development
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
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"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent."
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"Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities."
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"Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression."
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"Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society."
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"Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability."
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"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"
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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."
Progress
"Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music."
Beauty
"The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed."
Time
"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."
Inspirational
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
Music
"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."
Music
"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
People
"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."
Leader
"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts."
Power
"I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect."
Music
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