Daniel Barenboim Quotes

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

I wanted a fulfilling life, what every person wants. And then I just made a decision to leave music to venture out and go after what it is I always wanted, and that was total life prosperity.

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

I want to live all aspects of my life, not just acting.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

I want to live a full life - period.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.