Benjamin Zander Quotes

He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions--it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.

Benjamin Zander

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• Game
• Choose
• Labels
• Human Invention

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• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Best
  • Service
  • Yourself

• I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Model
  • First
  • Texas

• I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Working
  • Start
  • Something

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • Like
  • Fishing

• I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Negative

• The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Movies
  • Year
  • Studio

• The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Mad

• As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Want
  • You
  • Focus

• I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Career
  • Know

• War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Up
  • War
  • Storm

• Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)

  

  Sallust

• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life

• We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Revolution

• I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.

  

  Aimee Teegarden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Girl

• A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

  

  James Thurber
  • Wise

• Strength of our culture to some extent has compensated the lack of formal education. That is how people could vote wisely in these massive elections. After all, it was the ordinary, illiterate people who exercised the votes in the general elections we have had. And they seem to have voted with sufficient knowledge of affairs, of their interests, and this is remarkable indeed. But that is no substitute for education, and we have to have a full formal education for all our people and what I find sad is that it is an eminently practicable thing to do; in a matter of 5 years, India could be made literate.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Compensated

• Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

  

  Alfred Eisenstaedt
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Professional

• He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions--it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Life
  • Game
  • Choose