This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Words are things. Thoughts are things. Where your thoughts are, you are. When we learn to discipline and control our thoughts and feelings, and use only the positive, constructive words, sent forth with divine love, our body and mind respond to that righteousness – right-use-ness. The right use and selection of words is of vital importance but equally important is the feeling behind those words, for feeling is the motivating power that makes the words live.
Body | Control | Discipline | Feelings | Important | Love | Mind | Power | Right | Righteousness | Words | Learn |
If by prayer I mean the power of words to persuade God to do things, then prayer is futile and foolish. One might utter the words of the most devout prayer that was ever breathed and yet not be praying at all. It is the attitude of the personality which is the prayer, not the words.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
If you want to understand music better, you can do nothing more important than to listen to it.
Better | Important | Music | Nothing | Understand |
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
Imagination | Words |
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.