Zubin Mehta Quotes

Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down.

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• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Stress
  • Meditation

• Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • See
  • Product
  • Common Sense

• I'm in an interracial marriage.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Marriage

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Age
  • Community
  • Moral

• I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Surprise
  • Risks

• France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Broken
  • Social

• Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Real
  • Me
  • Feel

• I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Experience
  • Inspiration
  • Psychology

• As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Best
  • Talk
  • Folks

• He watched her. He took his time.Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?Perhaps.Perhaps not.Who can tell?

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Time

• Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Work

• You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

  

  James Daly
  • Business
  • Remember

• I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

  

  Jamie Bell

• We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • Job

• You need to be different and stand out. You need to have a message. For me, it didn't come easily. The best advice I was ever given, though, is go away and write 100 songs. You need to find the music that's you.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Music
  • Different
  • Advice

• Later on, when I signed with Sony, we wanted to re-release 'Fade' as 'Faded' with a brand new mix and with vocals by Iselin Solheim. I think Iselin was the first person who sung demo vocals for 'Faded.' And it worked out great! The way I got in touch with Iselin was through a guy that I work with in the studio.

  

  Alan Walker
  • Work
  • Great
  • Guy

• Honor is a zero sum game.

  

  David Graeber
  • Game
  • Honor

• Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Heart
  • True

• I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

  

  Connie Nielsen
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Obviously, the fate of our own species concerns us disproportionately. But at the risk of sounding anti-human—some of my best friends are humans!—I will say that it is not, in the end, what’s most worth attending to. Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this, and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy. The Sixth Extinction will continue to determine the course of life long after everything people have written and painted and built has been ground into dust and giant rats have—or have not—inherited the earth.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Risk
  • Humans
  • Species

• Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down.

  

  Zubin Mehta