Itzhak Perlman Quotes

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

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• That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Different
  • Play
  • Joy

• Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Leave
  • Content
  • Others

• I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Remember
  • More
  • Others

• For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Free
  • Yourself

• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Value
  • Yourself

• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Teach

• I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Forget

• When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fighting

• You should seek approval from yourself.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Yourself
  • Seek
  • Approval

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Simple
  • Impact
  • Others

• But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • High
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Friends
  • Yourself

• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Snow
  • Be Yourself

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • See
  • Others

• What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Help
  • Day

• I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Moments
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Game
  • Chance

• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  

  Berton Braley
  • Rivers
  • Don't Worry
  • Rhymed

• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It's only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they're just economic figures.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Meaningful

• Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

  

  Itzhak Perlman
  • Yourself
  • Teach
  • Others