Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

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• THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Heart
  • Hearts
  • Buried

• My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Career
  • Adapt
  • VIP

• You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

  

  Zach Sobiech
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Live Life

• A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Christian
  • Religion
  • Deep Thought

• For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • Destiny

• I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Reality

• We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Problems
  • Lord

• And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • World
  • American
  • Beautiful

• I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Wanted
  • Journal
  • Pauses

• Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.

  

  William Cowper
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Blessing

• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Language

• Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Obligation
  • Human Weakness

• I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Care

• Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Sea
  • Desires
  • Masters

• To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • World
  • Memories
  • Able

• I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Masters
  • Orchestration
  • Ravel