Riccardo Muti Quotes

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Riccardo Muti

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• I don't persuade to suicide.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Suicide
  • Persuade

• Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• When I'm get­ting ready to per­suade a per­son, I spend one-third of the time think­ing about myself, what I'm going to say, and two-thirds of the time think­ing about him and what he is going to say. -Abra­ham Lincoln Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will be.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Think
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Persuade

• I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Friends
  • War
  • Refuse

• The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Body
  • Events
  • Passions

• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Ideas
  • Artists
  • Picasso

• A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Suffering
  • Politics
  • Revenge

• It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Book

• Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

  

  Irving Thalberg

• I've got Peter Pan syndrome. It's not that I refuse to grow up - I love building businesses; I want to be a good husband, a good father. But I don't want to be boring. I don't want to be normal.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Up
  • Good
  • Father

• These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Live
  • Football
  • Training

• There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mind
  • Horse
  • Excitement

• I find that when I'm under pressure, I work really well, but then you have those days where you sleep for four hours because you drive to a venue overnight and arrive there the next day, and you're cranky and not dealing with it very well.

  

  Jean-Philip Grobler
  • Work
  • Pressure
  • Well

• In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Understanding
  • System

• The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • High
  • Texas
  • Oil

• School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• That's very hard to define. I guess, commitment. I don't believe in love at first sight. I'm in love with my wife, but I don't always feel the same level of love. Your emotions go up and down. The strongest love is between family members, and ultimately, it boils down to commitment.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Wife
  • Don't Believe
  • Define

• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Black
  • Eye
  • Boxes

• I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • American
  • Mean

• My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Jurassic Park
  • Leviathans
  • Creature features

• You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

  

  Riccardo Muti
  • Persuade