Patrick Henry Hughes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.”
-- Patrick Henry Hughes

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Musical Quotes

“Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.”
-- Patrick Henry Hughes

#Disability Quotes #Ability Quotes

“You shouldn’t say I can’t until you’ve tried.”
-- Patrick Henry Hughes

“I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.”
-- Patrick Henry Hughes

#Color Quotes #Hair Quotes #Sight Quotes

“Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.”
-- Patrick Henry Hughes

#Prayer Quotes #Roles Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“You shouldn’t say I can’t until you’ve tried.”
-- Patrick Henry Hughes

#I Can Quotes

“There are days where maybe the obstacle is too great, maybe I don't want to get up and go to classes or attend that marching band practice, but whenever I have those days, I just realize that I have to get it done and everything will turn out great in the end.”
-- Patrick Henry Hughes

#Practice Quotes #Class Quotes #Marching Band Quotes

“We're going to face problems on a day to day basis and there's probably going to be that one obstacle that you think oh I'm not going to be able to get through it but just remember if you set your mind to achieve a goal, then you can do it.”
-- Patrick Henry Hughes

#Thinking Quotes #Goal Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.”

Source : Twitter post from May 08, 2013

“I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.”

“I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.”

Source : Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. March 26, 2008.

“When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1952). “Music and imagination”, Harvard Univ Pr

“The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

“Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.”