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"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."
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"Every great soul was inspired by another great soul."
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"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."
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"The secret to success is belief and hard work."
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"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
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"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."
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"To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible."
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"The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops."
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"Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do."
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"Excellence never seeks excuses."
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"All worthwhile endeavours begin in your thoughts, and focusing your thoughts appropriately will increase your chances of success."
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"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."
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"The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning."
Past
"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."
Reflection
"I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'"
Revolution
"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
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"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process."
Work
"Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me."
Practice
"When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate."
Consistency
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
Poems
"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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