#instrument

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. ↗

— Willa Cather

#could #creation #desire #element #foretell

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#country #cultural #cultural diversity #diversity #every

I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#bass #commerce #compared #especially #even

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#been #between #critical #east #egypt

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#about #accomplish #all day #band #classes

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#could #dissecting #figure #first #having

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#form #instrument #into #liberation #only

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#consensus #context #democratization #effective #embody

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#consensus #democratization #developed #enable #essential