Al Bernstein Quotes

My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.

The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.

I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

I do engineering, not religion.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

I would rather be loved by millions and hated by the same number rather than moderately liked by everyone.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.

Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons.

The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.

I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.

The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

What you believe, you receive.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.