Benjamin Zander Quotes
It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream. Of course, I’m not sure they’ll be up to it.Benjamin Zander
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
Natalie Imbruglia -
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
Harlan Coben -
I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
Barry O'Farrell -
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
Veronica Roth
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
Wayne Coyne -
There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
Edgar Winter -
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
Zoe Saldana -
Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
A.J. Styles
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
Oliver North -
One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
Patrick Swayze -
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso -
Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.
Orison Swett Marden -
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
V. S. Naipaul -
I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
Oren Peli
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What is important ... is for Syria fully to cooperate over these questions that have been raised.
Jack Straw -
We made the best decision based on what we knew at the time.
Eileen Collins -
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi -
I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
Dan Shechtman -
I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.
Catherine Hardwicke -
It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream. Of course, I’m not sure they’ll be up to it.
Benjamin Zander