Isaac Stern Quotes

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

Isaac Stern

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• And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Live
  • Dream

• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

  

  Kanye West
  • Voice
  • Down
  • Generation

• Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Game

• I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Responsibility
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Business
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Build

• Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Responsibility
  • Justice
  • Cancer

• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  

  Kanye West
  • Artist
  • Generation
  • Shakespeare

• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • American
  • Responsibility
  • Poetry

• It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying 'How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Responsibility

• To me, the level of responsibility is measured by one's ability to confront the decision-making process without any delay or distraction.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Responsibility
  • Decision

• The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Work
  • Important
  • Done

• We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

  

  Bob Graham
  • War
  • Responsibility
  • Military

• If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

  

  Diplo
  • Kids
  • Responsibility
  • Cool

• The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • World
  • Women
  • Attention

• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's, like, an action flick with a great director, then it's like, 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director, I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.

  

  Michele Lee
  • Mother
  • Want
  • Rejection

• My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

  

  Psy
  • Model
  • Hero

• I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

  

  Isaac Stern
  • Responsibility
  • Teaching
  • Generation