Edward Gardner quotes

“It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.”
-- Edward Gardner

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“As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.”
-- Edward Gardner

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“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.”

“Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)”

“The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.”

Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

“Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.”

“That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.”

“And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.”

“Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.”

“As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.”

“In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.”