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  • #1
    Israelmore Ayivor
    “Don’t keep people in hatred. You might lose that very person who should endorse your next appointment letter if you are a skillful hater of people. Let love lead”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
    tags: appoint, appointment, critics, dislike, endorse, endorsement, food-for-thought, hate, hater, hatred, israelmore-ayivor, let-love-lead, letter, love, love-people, people, person, skill, skillful, written-letter
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  • #2
    “The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.”
    ― Allen Wheelis, How People Change: A Serious Psychological Work on Human Transformation
    tags: abuse, change, midlife-crisis, neglect, psychology, relationships, suffering
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “If your passion does not keep you sleepless, you can't be a good beginner. When passion itches, a great hand scratches... Wake up, it's your time to rise above idleness!”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
    tags: act, action, actions, arise, arise-and-shine, begin, begin-now, beginner, do-something, enthusiasm, food-for-thought, idleness, israelmore-ayivor, itches, passion, passionate, rise, scratch, sleep, sleepless, start-now, take-actions, time, wake-up
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  • #4
    Barbara Sher
    “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.”
    ― Barbara Sher
    tags: beginner, learn
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  • #5
    “Sometimes, the experts forget they were once beginners.
    You must be gentle with beginners; they have great potential to be experts.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
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  • #6
    Stephen McCranie
    “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
    ― Stephen McCranie
    tags: beginner, failure, master, tried
    248 likes

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  • #7
    Meister Eckhart
    “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
    ― Meister Eckhart
    tags: beginner, beginning, fresh-start, morning, start-fresh, teachable, willingness
    587 likes

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  • #8
    Robert Schumann
    “When you play, never mind who listens to you.”
    ― Robert Schumann
    tags: music, performing, piano
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  • #9
    Thelonious Monk
    “The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”
    ― Thelonious Monk
    tags: jazz, music, piano
    117 likes

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  • #10
    Artur Schnabel
    “The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.”
    ― Artur Schnabel
    tags: art, piano, silence
    54 likes

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  • #11
    Robert Schumann
    “Play always as if in the presence of a master.”
    ― Robert Schumann
    tags: music, performing, piano
    37 likes

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  • #12
    “The pianokeys are black and white
    but they sound like a million colors in your mind”
    ― Maria Cristina Mena, The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
    tags: colors, interpretation, music, philosophy, piano, racism
    368 likes

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  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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  • #14
    Roy T. Bennett
    “The beginning is always NOW.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: act, action, beginning, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, now, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, start, starting, startup
    74 likes

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  • #15
    Robert Schumann
    “If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.”
    ― Robert Schumann
    tags: fingers, melody, music, piano
    40 likes

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  • #16
    Tori Amos
    “Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.”
    ― Tori Amos
    tags: music, piano
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  • #17
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
    tags: beginnings, do-it, dreams, goals, hopes, just-do-it, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, starting, starting-over
    23 likes

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  • #18
    Manoj Arora
    “Got an idea to start", "Thinking to start" and "Making a commitment to start" is one aspect of life.
    Actually "Starting" what you truly want to do in life, is a completely different ball game.”
    ― Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
    tags: aspects-of-life, commitment, different, idea, life, start, starting
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  • #19
    “The beginning is always NOW.”
    ― Roy Bennett
    tags: beginning, life, now, start, starting, startup
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  • #20
    “Life is like a piano. White keys are happy moments and the black ones are sad moments. Both keys are played together to give us the sweet music called Life.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: happiness, happy, inspiration, keys, life, life-quotes, living, motivational, music, musical, notes, obstacles, piano, pitfalls, sad, symphony
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  • #21
    “Change starts with imagination”
    ― Alex Munoz
    tags: change, imagination, starting
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  • #22
    Frederick Weisel
    “Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?” he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. “It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.”
    ― Frederick Weisel, Teller
    tags: frederick-weisel, piano, teller, weisel
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  • #23
    “Great leaders are most often God’s spokesmen.”
    ― Jay Bryan Sandifer
    tags: god, gods-leading, greatness, greatness-in-you, greatness-quotes, leaders, leadership, leadership-development, leadership-quotes, leadership-training
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  • #24
    “Starting something can be easy, it is finishing it that is the highest hurdle.”
    ― Isabella Poretsis
    tags: determination, easy, finishing, hard, life, philosophy, starting
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  • #25
    Haruki Murakami
    “Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    tags: experience, future, life, perfection, starting, work
    59 likes

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  • #26
    Richie Norton
    “Gavin's Law: Live to start. Start to live.”
    ― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
    tags: gavin-s-law, gavins-law, inspiration, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, life, live-in-the-moment, living, living-life, living-life-to-the-fullest, start, starting
    41 likes

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  • #27
    Richie Norton
    “If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.”
    ― Richie Norton
    tags: business, create, creative, creativity, entrepreneurship, experience, experiment, expert, start, starting, stuff, wait, waiting
    30 likes

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  • #28
    Amit Kalantri
    “Its been enough enjoying now, let's begin achieving.”
    ― Amit Kalantri
    tags: achieve, achievement, achievers, begin, beginning, enjoy, enjoy-life, enjoying, enjoying-life, enjoyment, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, start, starting, wisdom, wisdom-quotes
    7 likes



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