Yanni Quotes

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

No matter what you are currently able to do, creativity can make you capable of more.

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.

Stretch your mind and fly.

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

I think it'll take a while to adjust, but when you think about just the creativity of people and what they're capable of and the sort of aspirations and dreams that they have, the idea that they're not capable of anything more than sort of performing these automatable clerical tasks, I don't believe that for a second.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

Capability means imagination.

Creativity means believing you have greatness.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

Greatness exists in all of us.