Lhevinne Quotes

#1. My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

#2. most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose differently, so that the prediction is proven wrong, all the better. What's the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything?

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. Music is painted upon a canvas of silence. Mozart used to say, "Silence is the greatest effect in music.

Josef Lhevinne

#4. I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

Leonard Susskind

#5. One nail draws another.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

George Carlin

#7. The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.

W. J. T. Mitchell

#8. The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#9. Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Byron Katie