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"I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style."
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"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up."
"All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language."
"Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate."
"A person's greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity."
"Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people."
"Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius."
"You can not live with a paw in each world."
"Fear clogged human potential."
"Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity, our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations."
"If you accept your limitations you go beyond them."
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"All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense."
"I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style."
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