Ben Heppner famous quotes

Figure out what you're passionate about. If you're not passionate about something, go find it. Because we do not need more unengaged boring people to inhabit this planet.
-- Ben Heppner

#People #Needs #Passionate

It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.
-- Ben Heppner

#Giving #Advice #News

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.
-- Ben Heppner

#Acting #Development #Vulnerable

I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.
-- Ben Heppner

#Hurt #Sweat #Voice

I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.
-- Ben Heppner

#Cameras #Television #Interviews

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.