Ved Mehta quote: "Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds."

I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Li...
ZUBIN MEHTA

As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
ZUBIN MEHTA

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
ZUBIN MEHTA

One shouldn't know the future.
ZUBIN MEHTA

There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students stud...
ZUBIN MEHTA

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies an...
ZUBIN MEHTA

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the ...
ZUBIN MEHTA

I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
ZUBIN MEHTA

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
ZUBIN MEHTA

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhe...
ZUBIN MEHTA

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
ZUBIN MEHTA

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
ZUBIN MEHTA

I believe in music.
ZUBIN MEHTA

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
ZUBIN MEHTA

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the...
ZUBIN MEHTA

In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutt...
ZUBIN MEHTA

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
ZUBIN MEHTA

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Pales...
ZUBIN MEHTA

Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
ZUBIN MEHTA

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we g...
ZUBIN MEHTA

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
ZUBIN MEHTA

Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a si...
ZUBIN MEHTA

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
ZUBIN MEHTA

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, ...
ZUBIN MEHTA

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
ZUBIN MEHTA

My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values...
ZARIN MEHTA

Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background pre...
ZARIN MEHTA

I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooki...
ZARIN MEHTA

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
ZARIN MEHTA

I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an account...
ZARIN MEHTA

I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that so...
ZARIN MEHTA

I have been waiting a long time to see what's next for Bridget Jones, and I am beyond thrilled s...
SONNY MEHTA

There is such a very large quantity of books clamouring for a buyer's attention that publishers ...
SONNY MEHTA

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the...
ZUBIN MEHTA

The biggest kick is reading something new and exciting and then getting other people to share your e...
SONNY MEHTA

Andre Agassi is one of the world's most popular and admired figures. He has lived an extraordina...
SONNY MEHTA

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head ...
ZUBIN MEHTA

If you stay in comfort zone, you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
ARVIND MEHTA

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourab...
ZUBIN MEHTA

Never give up on those who make time for you without being notified by the Virtual World.
AKIRA MEHTA

I discovered that being shy person is not at all good. We are disconnected with many people in our l...
ARVIND MEHTA

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
ZUBIN MEHTA

The person who ensure to live in present moment is never going to be unhappy in life.
ARVIND MEHTA

'French Women Don't Get Fat' has become something of a phenomenon.
SONNY MEHTA

You've power to change your mood instantly, no matter how bad it is. You will find hundred different...
ARVIND MEHTA

If we work with complete faith in something, the entire universe will support us in achieving same.
ARVIND MEHTA

I doubt the masculinity of a man whose manliness is reflected in a women's wound.
AKIRA MEHTA

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so ...
ZUBIN MEHTA

In the 1980s prices came crashing down to 10,000 rupees, a plethora of cable networks arrived with c...
VINNIE MEHTA

It is the technical part of the performance which is troubling me more than the musical part.
ZUBIN MEHTA

We are performing in a full stadium.
ZUBIN MEHTA

I don't want to hear this as a vice, really what we do with our money. She didn't need to steal from...
ZUBIN MEHTA

Few writers can rival Helen Fielding when it comes to fully capturing the modern woman.
SONNY MEHTA

For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to...
SHON MEHTA

Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school wit...
AJAY MEHTA

I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically ...
AJAY MEHTA

Liquid Machines is making it possible for us to work without fear of compromising the trust placed i...
ANGEL MEHTA

Tony Blair is one of the most significant world leaders of the modern era. He has a remarkable story...
SONNY MEHTA

But we may see some targeted attacks, ... The most credible would be to have these [image] files emb...
NEEL MEHTA

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a hi...
ZUBIN MEHTA

Bombay is a city in which everything is on broad, public display. Nothing is hidden.
SUKETU MEHTA

And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a ...
SUKETU MEHTA

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's suc...
ZUBIN MEHTA

She prepared a grand party for her crush. Messaged her mother "Happy mother's day "
AKIRA MEHTA

Many people suffer in life due to ignorance or not having the right knowledge. They even don't know ...
ARVIND MEHTA

Nothing great is accomplished in your comfort zone. Everything is beyond your comfort zone.
ARVIND MEHTA

People suffer setback in career, business and life because they love to stay in their comfort zone.
ARVIND MEHTA

People are killed every day in their career, business or life because they love to stay in their com...
ARVIND MEHTA

Those who are good at home, are always very effective at workplace. People can't have two different ...
ARVIND MEHTA

I have seen strong person are also weak at some point of time in life. If we understand functioning ...
ARVIND MEHTA

There is no need to suffer, learn from other men's writings, enough has been explored till now.
ARVIND MEHTA

Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit o...
ZUBIN MEHTA

I pay my tributes to my dearest friend and the greatest musician of India Ravi Shanker. It has been ...
ZUBIN MEHTA

This is where we were to have the bust. Here there was a very beautiful park named after Mrs. Gandhi...
SALIL MEHTA

If you are looking for perfection in everything, you are inviting anger in you.
ARVIND MEHTA

If you notice that anger in your childrens is growing day by day, the simple reason for same is that...
ARVIND MEHTA

I strongly believe that manufacturer can repair defects in their product easily because they have al...
ARVIND MEHTA

Maybe I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.
SHON MEHTA

He is innocent. His stand has always been that he did not kill any black buck and he was wrongly imp...
DIPESH MEHTA

A Life of poverty is not as bad as it looks through the wealthy person's eye, neither is the life of...
SHON MEHTA

Our body respond the way we think. Only missing thing is that many of us do not have awareness. More...
ARVIND MEHTA

It's a equal relationship now, people work for a company as long as the company adds value to them, ...
PIYUSH MEHTA

Don’t judge people in their reduced circumstances, nobody aspires to be there.
SHON MEHTA

Knowing the clear difference between authentic and inauthentic and still being inauthentic is going ...
ARVIND MEHTA

Invest few minutes every day in silence. The payback is tremendous.
ARVIND MEHTA

When you are depressed, heart always know the reason behind it. Many times people don't get immediat...
ARVIND MEHTA

Everyone has fear in life at some point. Some people work hard to get rid of fear from life, but thi...
ARVIND MEHTA

People with no identity are self motivated. They don't need any motivation.
ARVIND MEHTA

Miracles happen when you start following your heart, not mind." Your mind can play tricks but heart ...
ARVIND MEHTA

Your identity is the useless thing which is not allowing you to do great things in life. Come out of...
ARVIND MEHTA

We often find that productivity at work place do not increase to great extent inspite of various tra...
ARVIND MEHTA

To enjoy the present moment, you should not have any identity.
ARVIND MEHTA

Until you don't discover yourself, you're alone.
ARVIND MEHTA

Many times we feel that motivation doesn't last for long. This is just because we have our identity ...
ARVIND MEHTA

If you have problem in your life, help enough people to solve their problem. You will get rid of you...
ARVIND MEHTA

Motivation is required daily, no matter how motivated are you?
ARVIND MEHTA

If we follow nature's law, anything can be accomplished in life effortlessly.
ARVIND MEHTA

Mind always follows what you feed.
ARVIND MEHTA

There's a lot of learning from the television revolution.
VINNIE MEHTA

Meditation is the planned way of boredom. If you practice this regularly you will never get bored in...
ARVIND MEHTA

We have an opening for concertmaster, and we weren't able to find anybody in the last set of auditio...
ZUBIN MEHTA

If we are able to inspire people with our music, we can raise more funds.
ZUBIN MEHTA

There is always a gap(silence) between every thought. The more this silence, the more we have presen...
ARVIND MEHTA

Miracles happen when you distance yourself from negativity.
ARVIND MEHTA

Your heart always know the reason for your suffering. Take immediate action to stop you from sufferi...
ARVIND MEHTA

Those who distance from negativity, experience miracles in their life.
ARVIND MEHTA

90% problems in our life are due to our reactive behaviour and 10% problems are due to other reasons...
ARVIND MEHTA

To control anger in teenage childrens, mother should always prepare food and serve with smiles.
ARVIND MEHTA

The check comes home, she puts it in the bank, and we both spend.
ZUBIN MEHTA

Allow yourself to be bored for few minutes each day. It will help you to unlock the hidden potential...
ARVIND MEHTA

[One of the two critical vulnerabilities in the bulletin is within the Microsoft Distributed Transac...
NEEL MEHTA

My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My...
AJAY MEHTA

My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wro...
AJAY MEHTA

Americans are tired of fad diets, counting calories, and living within restrictive guidelines about ...
SONNY MEHTA

The problem with inner child is that if it keeps showing too often, people label you as childish.
SHON MEHTA

May be I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.
SHON MEHTA

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
ZUBIN MEHTA

Your soul is your scared space where you can reinvent yourself again and again.
ARVIND MEHTA

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
ZUBIN MEHTA

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic...
ZUBIN MEHTA

Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes...
ZUBIN MEHTA

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the...
ZUBIN MEHTA

I'm getting calls. They say that I'm defiling the name of India -- but I don't see how!
DEEPA MEHTA

Life will never get in the way of sports again.
SALIL MEHTA

Our mission is to be everywhere fans watch, talk, debate and enjoy sports. We don't believe in one s...
SALIL MEHTA

We have to wait as the courts are closed on Tuesday.
DIPESH MEHTA

My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was kno...
AJAY MEHTA

I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three a...
AJAY MEHTA

We aren't talking about theatres where Indians largely attend. Yes, 'Water' has gone mainstream with...
DEEPA MEHTA

I am thrilled beyond words.
DEEPA MEHTA

I couldn't make Water until I stopped being angry ... it took me five years to get over my anger. Wh...
DEEPA MEHTA

What the children see, they do, ... What they do doesn't come of nothing.
DEEPA MEHTA

It's just not part of their culture.
DEEPA MEHTA

Honesty for me works,
DEEPA MEHTA

It makes them feel good. It makes them feel like they belong in Canada -- and it's not just lip serv...
DEEPA MEHTA

And then it wouldn't be opening the Toronto film festival and it wouldn't be opening around the worl...
DEEPA MEHTA

It's rather simplistic but that's what it is: That there is room for redemption and hope, however gr...
DEEPA MEHTA

I feel respect is in your hands as an actor when portraying a character, particularly when it's ...
AJAY MEHTA

Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a fa...
AJAY MEHTA

Pursue your passion, work with your intuition learn as a child and adapt as water.
PUSHPENDRA MEHTA

We've had 30,000 hits 15 days after we launched. Over 7000 people have signed into the site.
BULLET MEHTA

The title of the book is 'Jake the Philharmonic Dog'.
ZARIN MEHTA

The musicians and we know that this is important to the future of the New York Philharmonic and of c...
ZARIN MEHTA

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration wate...
ZUBIN MEHTA

In 'Lean In,' Sheryl Sandberg gives a frank assessment of what it will take for women to mov...
SONNY MEHTA

There is something attractive about taking risks.
SONNY MEHTA

'The War' is a stunning achievement in filmmaking.
SONNY MEHTA

If the response to 'Suite Francaise' is any indication, there's a great deal of curiosit...
SONNY MEHTA

You do not give a great biographer a timetable. You let them do their work and, in due course, publi...
SONNY MEHTA

I believe 'Lean In' has the power to change not only our outlook but also the world and that...
SONNY MEHTA

I asked Raghav, as we were looking over the wasteland, if the Muslims they burnt would beg for their...
SUKETU MEHTA

Perhaps being around a group of people who will show me 'the way' could do what no one else has done...
HEMANT MEHTA

The whole mind-set has shifted from saving to living for today.
HEMANT MEHTA

This is money going on I, me, myself. A generation ago, there's no way that the Indian male would ha...
HEMANT MEHTA

In the last five years, the global trend of body beautiful has come to India.
HEMANT MEHTA

The company is taking the actions required for long-term profitability but whenever a company has to...
KARTIK MEHTA

We believe client growth is ahead of our expectations.
KARTIK MEHTA

The IT department may be living in an older world where they think an automation deletion policy is ...
NICK MEHTA

brought the act of reading home to people in a way that publishers have not always been successful a...
SONNY MEHTA

We are about 30 percent of the market [for blade server switches], making us one of the largest [ven...
VIKRAM MEHTA

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.
C. C. MEHTA

Make in India, Make FOR India
RAJ SHAILESH MEHTA

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

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Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

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