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Quote by Gustav Mahler
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unco

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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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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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 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 man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. – Sigmund Freud

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Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. – John Burroughs

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A persons fate is their own temper. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. – Charles M. Schwab

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