Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes

It's tough, trying to get better.

I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan.

Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

I love trying to beat what I've done so far.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.

How can we all be better? We can be better by constantly evolving and not saying, Because baseball has always had men, let's make sure we keep it that way. I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

Everything stinks until it's finished.

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.

I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.