Itay Talgam Quotes

#1. Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

E.W. Howe

#2. For Breakfast I like my coffee warm and cozy and my eggs funny side up.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#3. If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.

Itay Talgam

#4. Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Itay Talgam

#5. [A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

Itay Talgam

#6. Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

Itay Talgam

#7. Some comedians really are funnier than others. Some people really are more beautiful than others. But these are true only because of the kinds of creatures we happen to be; the perceptual apparatus - apparati - that we happen to have.

Jonathan Haidt

#8. I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of it.

Amanda Schull

#9. Kleiber was the perfect dancer - so perfect that you could see the process. After all, dance is a process; it's a series of snapshots. Kleiber knew how to connect people to the flow, so he could stop managing people.

Itay Talgam

#10. I'm especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing.

Teresa Medeiros

#11. What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?

Itay Talgam