Benjamin Zander Quotes
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.
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One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.
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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
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When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
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'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah.
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In order to develop the willpower it takes to sacrifice, you must first realize that spending all your time and energy pursuing material comforts means you will eventually suffer. It's all about positive and negative consequences. It's very important to be aware that there are long-term consequences [for every action].
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
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I have a definition of success.
