Quotes About Instrument

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Lord," I had written, "protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.

Senhor", eu tinha escrito, "protege minha família e a mim. Perdoa meus pecados, e me ajuda a evitar o orgulho e o desespero. Dá-me sabedoria para fazer o que é certo e justo. E faz de mim instrumento da Tua vontade.

I had discovered that writing--with whatever instrument--was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do.

If God speaks for the man who keeps quiet, then Violet Brown may be His instrument.

Ring! he shrieked at the vapid instrument.

We are the instrument of our own performance

Your body is the only instrument through which you operate in life. If you don't get control of your body, how can you control the expressions that come through your body and your mind?

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.

Conversation is the socializing instrument par excellence, and in its style one can see reflected the capacities of a race.

If the UN is to become the instrument for peace now is the time to strengthen it.

As the sacramental sign is the inanimate medium of grace, 16 so the minister is its animate instrument in the hands of Christ.

Revolution is impersonal; it will take their lives, even utilizing their memory as an example or as an instrument for domesticating the youth who follow them.

Handwriting is a spiritual designing, even though it appears by means of a material instrument.

I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.

He'd used her body as an implement of self pleasure without bothering to make sure that Olivia was satisfied, a fact that made Baird angry and disgusted. It was like using a fine musical instrument to play a simple, selfish tune when it was capable of producing a much richer, more complex sound if only you took the time to really master it.

I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.

Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.

I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.