Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

When you doubt, abstain.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

Those who mill around at the crossroads of history do so at their own peril.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

It's a crazy game. It's a game we all choose to play.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

Living involves making bold choices. You can't always know how they're going to turn out, and you can always play that game of wondering what might have been if you had made another decision.

That first morning that I woke up self-employed, terror quickly consumed me. I found myself sitting with my laptop and realized, for the first time, that I was entirely responsible for all of my own decisions, as well as the consequences of those decisions.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

Who does not talk cannot be judged. Who does not shoot the penalty cannot miss.

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

When anything can happen, everything matters.

Tis better to sit there and look the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?