Yehudi Menuhin Quotes

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Yehudi Menuhin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 22, 1916 - March 12, 1999

Topics

TruthGiftHideWithinSlavePoet

What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

Matthew Stewart

BusinessSucceedThinkYouNeedOut

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

Steven Gerrard

GoalsWinLongMatterWhoScores

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald

MyselfDoingPerformerDoes

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

Michael Trucco

BirthdayMyselfAirplaneOutBecause

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

Judi Dench

ControlKnowWillOverFloorLeft

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

Joshua Chamberlain

WarThinkBodyGoPlacesGoing

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

Jason Calacanis

GoodPainPeopleWorldFrustration

When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity.

Cory Booker

DiversityLookUnitedHiringSenate

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

Anthony Bourdain

TimeChildhoodTravelMeWayFirst

I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to erase it and move forward.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

MyselfMistakesForwardYouHigh

Being at a very high quality level was the only way for us to survive.

Pier Luigi Loro Piana

QualitySurviveWayHighLevelUs

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

Shigeru Miyamoto

ReadingAppreciateFriendsEnjoy

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