Yehudi Menuhin Quotes

The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.

Yehudi Menuhin

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• The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Yourself

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Me
  • Better
  • Write

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Security
  • Watching
  • Cause

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Kids
  • Culture

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Man
  • Criticism
  • Conservative

• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Business
  • Small
  • Growth

• Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Truth
  • Word

• It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Art
  • Character
  • Beauty

• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I am a straightforward man.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Straightforward

• Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Live
  • Los Angeles

• The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Names
  • Early

• Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Vegetarian
  • Cannibal

• I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.

  

  Alexander Sutherland Neill
  • Important
  • Learning
  • Hearing

• In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.

  

  Gerald Jay Sussman
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Engineering

• The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship
  • Learning