"The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other."

-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Spring Quotes #Symphony Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.”
“You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.”
“Don't take no for an answer. Don't let yourself get pushed around, and don't be afraid to be the bad guy. Find a producer who will be there to back you up when things get difficult. Make sure you work with key crew that you trust.”
“I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.”
“We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.310, Harvard University Press
“What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say.”
“I'm looking for the binding energy of a look a crop of reflections to be reaped in a winter of thorn when icebergs of illusion will melt to be served at high tea and the spaces between the poles pinned down”
“When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.”

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