J. B. Bernstein Quotes

Letting go of control, that's actually when you're safe.

The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

History-writing is not a visit of condolence.

We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

People carry around resentment for years! And that creates daily stress.

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.

When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.

When you focus on your greatness you elevate everyone around you.

If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

I am willing to see things differently. I am willing to see love.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.

In a drop of rain can be seen the colors of the sun.

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.

Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

It’s time to let go, be guided and expect miracles.

When will the left learn that if you confiscate wealth it doesn't create more of it.

If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins.

To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past.

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds

You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

There's something totally crazy about this.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.

When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive.

Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Be real. That's part of being present.

Joy is a big stress buster too. Measure your success by how much fun you're having.

True manifesting is allowing the universe to catch up with your dreams.

The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.