Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

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• Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Value

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• Either Malcolm X or Martin [Luther King] could have played the role of a unifier, but it was - Malcolm as long as he remained within the Nation of Islam, talking to the converted, he did not represent a fundamental threat to the American government.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Long
  • American
  • King

• As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Artist

• She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character

• Physical training is mental warfare!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Training

• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  

  Len Wein
  • Effort
  • Audience
  • Judgement

• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Obstacles
  • Experiences

• Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Power
  • Broken
  • Pieces

• When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Children
  • School

• We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Faith
  • Jesus
  • Sound

• The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Greatness

• Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Gay

• When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.

  

  Gabor Szabo
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Play

• Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I'm interested in directing, but it's a real headache. Directing can be a real pain in the ass, because you not only have to worry about yourself, but all these other people coming to you with their problems. I like just worrying about myself.

  

  Ray Wise
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Yourself

• Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
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