Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. ”

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ”

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. ”

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. ”

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. ”

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole. ”

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people. ”

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. ”

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time. ”

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour. ”