Quote by Brian Ferneyhough
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with b

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. – Brian Ferneyhough

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. – Brian Ferneyhough

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cool
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. – Brian Ferneyhough

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Failure
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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. – Brian Ferneyhough

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respect
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Dont fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. – Louis E. Boone

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I have always believed that its important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. – T. Boone Pickens

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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. – Albert J. Nock

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Failure

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns

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The destruction of the poor is their poverty. – Bible

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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. – Joel Osteen

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Directing is: youre overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and youre still thinking about it. – Campbell Scott

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And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of Gods loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. – Rowan D. Williams

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