Daniel Barenboim Quotes

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

Some things you can't control.

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

There's just some things you can't change.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

The past is what the past is.

I don't change. The things around me change.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

I'm a fatalist.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

Some people have a mandate that you can't change.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set. It's in ink. It's done. Nothing changes it.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.