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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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"Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality."
"It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal."
"With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals."
"In our natural world, it is the strongest of the species that claim their space, seek out new territories, explore their surroundings, and learn how to survive and thrive. It is those same qualities that enable us to apply confidence and command to transcend the mediocre and achieve outstanding results."
"The self-actualization process for a man is a conscious choice of a life goal and the way to achieve it."
"I made my name. What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development."
"Greatness like every other product is bought with the currency of time."
"Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset."
"Every great endeavour is fueled by great enthusiasm."
"Greatness is an attainment bought with the currency of time."
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"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside."
"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
"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."
"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.'"
"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."
"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."
"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"
"Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply."
"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."
"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them."
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