Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Perfect

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Team
  • Matter
  • Most

• You might think otherwise, but it doesn't naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Law

• Restful sleep is a key ingredient to living a miraculous life. I'm not saying we need eight or ten hours a night to feel fully rested. In fact, sometimes less sleep can be more restorative than many hours. The key is to have real sleep... the drooling-on-the-pillow kind of sleep.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Life
  • Real
  • Night

• Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

  

  Jo Stafford

• Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Energy
  • Focus
  • Goals

• We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Future

• I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

  

  Aslan Maskhadov
  • War

• I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

  

  Bertie Carvel
  • People
  • Work
  • Wish

• I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Education
  • Service

• James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Technology

• If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.

  

  Brian Kobilka
  • Bad

• The N.B.A. is not an easy job. As you get older, you play this game for 82 games a year, and you play 11 or 12 years, your body tends to break down.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Job
  • Game

• My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

  

  Koichi Tanaka
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Giving

• Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • Need
  • Lightning

• There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Comparison
  • Unbearable
  • Lightness

• Successful films are very dangerous things.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Growing
  • Cutting

• There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there's nothing funny about them, but they're rare, and they don't last all that long.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Funny

• I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Cutting
  • Composing
  • Conducting