Cal Callahan, “Lauren Bay-Regula: Life as an Olympian, Mom, and Entrepreneur,” January 28, 2020, The Great Unlearn podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-great-unlearn/id1492460338?i=1000463898379.
When we say the greatest constrictor of human potential, we are acknowledging that the fear of getting killed, starvation, or losing your job are greater constrictors. This book is about the quality of life we live, not survival.
Scott Barry Kaufman, “Sailboat Metaphor,” https://scottbarrykaufman.com/sailboat-metaphor.
Michael Gervais, “How to Stop Worrying about What Other People Think of You,” hbr.org, May 2, 2019, https://hbr.org/2019/05/how-to-stop-worrying-about-what-other-people-think-of-you.
Lauren Regula, Instagram post, September 7, 2022.
Quoted and translated in Alexander Wheelock Thayer, The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven: Vol. 1 [1866], ed. Henry Edward Krehbiel, (New York: The Beethoven Association, 1921), 300.
Thayer, Life of Beethoven, 300.
Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter written by Beethoven to his brothers Carl and Johann on October 6, 1802, http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Bio/BiographyHeiligenstadtTestament.html.
Jan Swafford, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph; A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014), 428; H. C. Robbins Landon, Beethoven: A Documentary Story (New York: Macmillan, 1974), 210. Lichnowsky’s physician, Dr. Anton Weiser, tells the story of when Beethoven was offended by being asked to play the violin at a dinner.
Swafford, Beethoven, 21.
Swafford, Beethoven, 53.
Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven Remembered: The Biographical Notes of Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries (Salt Lake City, UT: Great River Books, 1987), 39.
Swafford, Beethoven, 98–99.
Swafford, Beethoven, 128. “Part of his gift was the raptus, that ability to withdraw into an inner world that took him beyond everything and everybody around him, and also took him beyond the legion of afflictions that assailed him. Improvising at the keyboard and otherwise, he found solitude even in company.”
Swafford, Beethoven, 98–99.
Heiligenstadt Testament letter.