Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

Yiannis Chryssomallis

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• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Political
  • Middle

• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Political
  • Interesting
  • Try

• I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • You
  • Small

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• I like to dress up every now and then.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Now
  • Dress

• A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Thinking
  • Me
  • Things

• I think soul is soul. I don't see new soul as any different to old soul.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Different
  • Think
  • Soul

• People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Place
  • Sure

• For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Drama
  • Roles
  • Theater

• As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Hands
  • Innovation
  • Step

• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Friend

• Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Spiritual
  • Struggle

• We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies - such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Work
  • History
  • Value

• This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Knowledge
  • Single
  • Understanding

• A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Friend

• I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

  

  Charles Goodyear
  • Life

• It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

  

  Jim Dale
  • Feeling
  • Fishing

• The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest.

  

  William G. Tapply
  • Memories
  • Fishing
  • Shining

• Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

  

  Joseph Monninger
  • Reading
  • Fishing
  • Hiking

• I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Fishing