100 Quotes by John Powell

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.