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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
"If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly."
"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."
"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
"The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life."
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy."
"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."
"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster."
"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."
"But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home."
"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line."
"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
"Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge."
"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline."
"I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis."
"There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."
"If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power."
"If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself."
"My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter."
"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."
"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."
"The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people."
"Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended."
"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books."
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
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