It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
I was an elementary school teacher.
People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Björling did it. His voice was unique and it's his path that I want to follow. I would more than anything else wish that people compared me with Jussi Björling. It's like so I'm striving to sing.
I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.
Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.
Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
If you aren't failing, you aren't trying.