Benjamin Zander Quotes

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

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• I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

  

  Warren Moon
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Failure

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Women
  • Poetry
  • For Her

• At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • Children
  • Age

• Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • High
  • You
  • Connection

• There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Important
  • Long
  • America

• So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Write
  • Dying

• There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Men
  • Women
  • Moving

• The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

  

  Lisa See
  • Relationship
  • Teacher
  • Student

• A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Heart

• ... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Help
  • Idea
  • Expression

• Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Practical

• Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

  

  Confucius
  • Ability
  • Demand
  • Catch Up

• You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Need
  • Ability
  • Master

• In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Decision
  • Imagination
  • Choices

• The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Ability
  • Orchestra
  • Conductor