Yanni Quotes

I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.

It seems that in every culture, however tough life is and however impossible the conditions, there are some resilient human beings who find their way through, who survive and make something of themselves.

The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

I remember a few years ago I was watching this astronaut from the space shuttle, talking about his experiences in space and talking about what earth looked like to him from above.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Endurance is mind over matter.

Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

Taking responsibility gives me a sense of control.

I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's "facts" and believe that winning was impossible.

My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - "this is just the way it is" - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.

It's a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.