Itzhak Perlman Quotes

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

Temperance is love in training.

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.