Benjamin Zander Quotes

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

Benjamin Zander

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• There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Live
  • Real
  • Mistake

• I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • Me
  • Hands

• The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hands
  • Class
  • Ignorant

• I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Hands
  • Comfortable

• If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Control
  • Always
  • Mistake

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Hands
  • Old
  • Speech

• I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Hands
  • Wealth
  • Communism

• Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Looking

• People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Drinking

• Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Mistake

• I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistake

• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Remember

• I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Hands
  • Books
  • Smell

• I love Baltimore. It is a city with a giant heart and has remained one of my favorite places to keep returning to on tour. It is unique and beautiful, and you can't mistake it for anywhere else in the world - Baltimore is one hundred percent Baltimore.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • World
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• I feel as though, as an actor, you can only make brave choices when you're acting with people that you're so relaxed with that you can make a mistake.

  

  Jaime Murray
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Choices

• As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

  

  Eric Allin Cornell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• When I make a mistake once, it's usually not going to happen again.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Mistake

• The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Responsibility
  • Service
  • Humble

• Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Mad

• I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Remember

• The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Kind
  • Struggle
  • Overcoming

• Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Great
  • School
  • Friends

• When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Mistake
  • Hands
  • Fascinating