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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

"In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; 'here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization)."

"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."

"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."
Explore more quotes by Itzhak Perlman

"In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!"

"I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day."

"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."

"I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen."

"For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them."

"Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all."

"I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music."
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