Lera Auerbach Quotes

There are only
two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers. ~ Lera Auerbach

A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears. ~ Lera Auerbach

You can only master something by loving it. ~ Lera Auerbach

I have inflammation of the imagination. ~ Lera Auerbach

Realized dreams often turn into nightmares. ~ Lera Auerbach

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence. ~ Lera Auerbach

How far can you go into the woods? ~ Dathan Auerbach

Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, Where do the clothes and accessories come from? ~ Loyd Auerbach

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. ~ Red Auerbach

You might think of a haunting as a loop of video or audio tape playing itself over and over for you to watch. Trying to interact with it would be akin to trying to interact with a show on your TV: sure, you can turn it off or change the channel, but I wouldn't expect the actors to suddenly stop and talk to you directly. ~ Loyd Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ~ Red Auerbach

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men. ~ Berthold Auerbach

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. ~ Frank Auerbach

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them. ~ Berthold Auerbach

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere. ~ Berthold Auerbach

Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer. ~ Dathan Auerbach

It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist predecessors, became a reflected image of perfection. He set poets the task of writing philosophically, not only in the sense of giving instruction, but in the sense of striving, by the imitation of appearance, to arrive at its true essence and to show its insufficiency measured by the beauty of the Idea. ~ Erich Auerbach

Falsehood always punishes itself. ~ Frank Auerbach

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. ~ Red Auerbach

I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally. ~ Dan Auerbach

Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win. ~ Red Auerbach

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ~ Berthold Auerbach

Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?"
Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always fear."
"But why must I fear him?" asked Rannoch.
"Because, my little one ... man is cruel and cold. He eats up everything he touches. He enslaves Lera and breaks the laws of the forest. Because, Rannoch, he is the only creature that hunts without need. ~ David Clement-Davies

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole. ~ Red Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important. ~ Berthold Auerbach

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you. ~ Frank Auerbach

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best. ~ Red Auerbach

You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life. ~ Dan Auerbach

You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers. ~ Dan Auerbach

I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with. ~ Red Auerbach

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. ~ Berthold Auerbach

You handle animals. You deal with people. ~ Red Auerbach

Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that 'man was made to reason, woman to feel.' Perhaps Austen was tired of reading passages in conduct books suggesting that young women were innately sensitive, quivering, emotional messes. ~ Emily Auerbach

The Western Canon does not exist in order to augment preexisting societal elites. It is there to be read by you and by strangers, so that you and those you will never meet can encounter authentic aesthetic power and the authority of what Baudelaire (and Erich Auerbach after him) called "aesthetic dignity." One ~ Harold Bloom

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole. ~ Red Auerbach

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. ~ Erich Auerbach

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love. ~ Red Auerbach

Everything can happen in the playoffs. ~ Red Auerbach

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us. ~ Berthold Auerbach

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work. ~ Berthold Auerbach

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart. ~ Red Auerbach

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. ~ Berthold Auerbach

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. ~ Berthold Auerbach

The world is a cruel place made crueler still by man. ~ Dathan Auerbach

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price. ~ Red Auerbach

To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf. ~ David Clement-Davies

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands. ~ Dan Auerbach