Lively Quotes - Page 13

• Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies zusammen). What a delight this is I cannot tell ! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing lively dream.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Dream, Imagination, Delight

  "Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart".

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• A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Heart, Errors

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• The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

  Charles Spurgeon

  Reason Why, Lord, Virtuous

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• The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Lonely, Art, Begging You

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• Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

  Joseph Pilates

  Self, Practice, Desire

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• Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Attitude, Mind

  Maria Montessori (2004). “The Discovery of the Child”, p.92, Aakar Books

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