Leopold Auer Quotes

#1. People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#2. You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.

Jane Goodall

#3. Remember, it's the finish, not the start, that counts the most in life.

John C. Maxwell

#4. The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

Karl Kraus

#5. The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

Don DeLillo

#6. If looks were to be believed, he still was just a boy. Something of my age, though from his solemn quietude, I knew he was old in the soul. A boy whose black crayon would be the shortest in his box.

Tiffany McDaniel

#7. I am not soft. I do not have that luxury. I am the wolf in girl's clothing; all snarls and claws. My mother once told me: be gentle, be kind. She forgot to mention that the world was full of beasts, and if I wanted to survive I would have to become one myself.

Nichole McElhaney

#8. Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours.

Leopold Auer

#9. A successful day is one in which you have stayed in touch with Me, even if many things remain undone at the end of the day. Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life.

Sarah Young

#10. The awesome love of our invisible God has become both visible and audible in Jesus Christ, the glory of the only Son filled with enduring love.

Brennan Manning

#11. Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.

Leopold Auer

#12. A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

Leopold Auer

#13. Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a fundamental error in musical taste and judgment.

Leopold Auer

#14. All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to stand by and do nothing.

Edward Burke

#15. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.

Leopold Auer

#16. Court each other forever.

Zig Ziglar

#17. Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

Ram Dass