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«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
adds, anticipate, anticipates, composer, Delicious, divining, exercises, gymnastic, in point of fact, listener, more or less, musical, occurs, sensation, skillful, stable, The Listener, The Void, thrust, torn, void, withholds
«The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage - to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature - is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold»
Author: Gardner Murphy
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bondage, cultivation, point of view, satisfying, stable, tenfold, thousand-fold, thousandfold, unsatiated
«We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.»
Author: Natalie Goldberg
| Keywords:
artistic, blooms, compost, garbage, inertia, insecurities, in truth, stable, voices
«True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
balanced, disorder, disrupt, disrupted, disrupting, expects, presumed, presumes, presume to, presuming, stability, stable, transformed, unexpected, waits
«Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
changeless, stable, state change, weep
«The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
horse racing, race horse, racing, solid, stable
«What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| About:
Community,
Loneliness,
Youth
| Keywords:
communities, cured, daring, obviously, stable