Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

Yo-Yo Ma

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• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Good
  • Learning

• When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Learning
  • English
  • Years

• I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Book
  • Culture

• If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Opportunity
  • Understanding
  • Everyday

• Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

  

  Vernon Law
  • People
  • Learning
  • Busy

• Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Learning
  • Much
  • Perfecting

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Listening

• If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Execution

• There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Earth
  • Content

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Learning
  • Learn
  • Habit

• All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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  • Create
  • Content

• I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Learning
  • Style
  • Singing

• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Chance

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Learning
  • Democracy
  • Chance

• If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Fame

• Doing an interview you're going to have certain things you want to get at, but you're better off if you play to people's strengths a bit. You're also assessing how it's going and adjusting as needed. Does your subject seem up for it, willing to do it, and is he or she enjoying the interview? Or do they need to be coaxed, or reassured, or whatever they might need from you? Like writing, interviewing is a process that you keep learning, and you're always trying to get better and better.

  

  Anthony DeCurtis
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Interview

• Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Picture

• Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thinking
  • Self
  • Desiring

• As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Life

• Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Responsibility

• The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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