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"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it."
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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"Success does not come to a person's life by chance you have to fight for it."
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"Anybody can choose to relax but somebody must choose to pursue."
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"What force is more potent than love?"
Love
"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."
Music
"I am an inventor of music."
Music
"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators."
Artist
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
Music
"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust."
Genius
"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."
Money
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
Music
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
Music
"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
Effort
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