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

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Source : Yehudi Menuhin (1986). “Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist”, Vintage

Yehudi Menuhin

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“Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.”
“I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and shes gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.”
“Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.”
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
“I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.”

Source : "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.
“I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale”
“There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.”
“I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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