"The most important thing to do is really listen."

-- Itzhak Perlman

#Important Quotes

“I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.”
“I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.”
“Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.”
“We are each other's reference point at our turning points.”

Source : Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel
“I hate artists who are not of their time.”
“Maybe youâ€™ll marry, maybe you wonâ€™t, maybe youâ€™ll have children, maybe you wonâ€™t, maybe youâ€™ll divorce at 40, maybe youâ€™ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversaryâ€¦what ever you do, donâ€™t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either â€“ your choices are half chance, so are everybody elseâ€™s.”

Source : Song: Everybody's Free
“Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out how to make writing an integral part of your life. Publication is good, and gives you the courage to go on, but publication is not as important as the act of writing.”
“One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.”

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