Benjamin Zander Quotes

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

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• I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Mind
  • Television
  • Radio

• That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • You
  • Humor
  • Grace

• I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Up
  • Friends
  • True

• I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Me

• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Home
  • Day
  • Wife

• I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • High
  • Knowledge

• In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Will

• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Family
  • House
  • Parents

• Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because I am a courageous person or anything, but because I see international standards, and I see that they are worth fighting for.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Men
  • Standards
  • Aggressive

• The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • New
  • Limits
  • Mature

• Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Happy
  • Strong

• Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Feeling
  • Mean
  • Angry

• When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Work
  • May
  • Taken

• Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Human
  • Forget

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Space

• I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Think
  • Food

• If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heaven
  • Able
  • Hell

• My version of makeup is a really intense skin regimen. I just think it's a healthier way to look at beauty.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Beauty
  • Look
  • Makeup

• If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually can. Everybody has their hard days - I definitely had mine - and you get through them, and you learn from that stumble, and then you're onto the next problem.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Math

• You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grass-roots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship - whether we work together or apart.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • Work
  • Important
  • Power

• Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Eyes
  • Look
  • Shining