Quote by Gustav Mahler
The point is not to take the worlds opinion as a guiding star but

The point is not to take the worlds opinion as a guiding star but to go ones way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. – Gustav Mahler

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A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. – Gustav Mahler

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Personality
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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler

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Music
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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. – Gustav Mahler

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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. – Alice James

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. – Greil Marcus

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Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then youve got something to share. – Steve Harvey

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You cant be afraid of failure and you cant be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. – Dave Van Ronk

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When Im talking to a large audience, I imagine that Im talking to a single person. – Red Barber

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. – Aristotle

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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with. – Stevie Wonder

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