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

• 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

• My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Up
  • World
  • Small

• My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • World
  • Father
  • Vulnerability

• The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Art
  • Prayer

• Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Respect

• Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they have both obstructed the Republicans' proposed remedies.

  

  David Limbaugh

• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Leaves
  • Sphere
  • Vanishes

• 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