The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Gustav MahlerIt is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
Gustav MahlerI don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
Gustav Mahler