Parameters – Quotes

The sort of commercial

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. Esa-Pekka Salonen

I remember my friend

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, ‘with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.’ Enrico Fermi

I love to read about music and about art, but I don’t try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I’m to behave as an artist. It’s the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are … Read more

Shareholders have the right

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. Eliot Spitzer

The formula for the

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem. Ehud Olmert

In desperation I asked

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, \”How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?\” I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, \”Four.\” He said, \”I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used … Read more

Through the practice of

Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana. Frederick Lenz

Move beyond the limited

Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world. Frederick Lenz

Beyond the parameters of

Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean … and it’s most excellent. Frederick Lenz

…what\’s always exciting is

…what’s always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I’ll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that’s wonderful . And what’s even more wonderful in a way, is when you … Read more