Auerbach Quotes & Sayings

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. — Berthold Auerbach

Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of seeing it indeed in the round" ... Both men and women can be vain about their appearances, selfish about money, overawed by rank, and limited by parochialism; both men and women can function capably, think profoundly, feel deeply, create imaginatively, laugh wittily, and love faithfully. Without vindicating the rights of anyone directly, Austen posits a humanism far ahead of her time. "How really modern she is, after all," Welty concludes of Austen. — Emily Auerbach

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. — Red Auerbach

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole. — Red Auerbach

A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears. — Lera Auerbach

Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery. — Emily Auerbach

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. — Frank Auerbach

I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage. — Dan Auerbach

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined. — Lera Auerbach

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health. — Frank Auerbach

Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves — Dathan Auerbach

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. — Red Auerbach

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. — Frank Auerbach

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete. — Brian J. White

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court. — Red Auerbach

Strategy is something anyone can learn. But not all coaches take the time to understand a man's personality. — Red Auerbach

Don't walk into the future looking backwards — Stevanne Auerbach

Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings. — Loyd Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach

You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here. — Red Auerbach

If they think we've got an edge, we've got an edge. — Red Auerbach

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. — Berthold Auerbach

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up. — Dan Auerbach

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy. — Berthold Auerbach

Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about. — Dan Auerbach

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. — Berthold Auerbach

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other. — Berthold Auerbach

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art. — Berthold Auerbach

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it. — Dan Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important. — Berthold Auerbach

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside. — Dan Auerbach

Falsehood always punishes itself. — Frank Auerbach

I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally. — Dan Auerbach

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere. — Berthold Auerbach

There are only
two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers. — Lera Auerbach

I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face. — Bob Cousy

Players are people, not horses. You don't handle them. You work with them, you coach them, you teach them, and, maybe most important, you listen to them. — Red Auerbach

Realized dreams often turn into nightmares. — Lera Auerbach

To the jaded eye, all vampires seem alike, but they are wonderful in their versatility. Some come to life in moonlight, others are killed by the sun, some pierce with their eyes, others with fangs, some are reactionary, others are rebels, but all are disturbingly close to the mortals they prey on. I can think of no other monsters who are so receptive. Vampires are neither inhuman nor nonhuman nor all-too-human, they are simply more alive than they should be. — Nina Auerbach

Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential. — Red Auerbach

You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life. — Dan Auerbach

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. — Red Auerbach

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup. — Red Auerbach

Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected. — Dan Auerbach

Our loved ones pass away or simply leave our lives forever too soon, and we think to ourselves, "I wasn't ready for you to leave. It just wasn't time," because we're never truly ready, because it's never truly time.
So we keep them in our memories.
And when we regret that we don't have more memories of them, maybe our minds give us more gifts; gradually we find ourselves remembering them being with us in times and places that they couldn't have been, and gradually we stop correcting ourselves because, well, we want them to have been there. — Dathan Auerbach

It's a bit poetic that it is so easy to take advantage of those who have no advantages to begin with. — Dathan Auerbach

Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win. — Red Auerbach

Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer. — Dathan Auerbach

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life. — Red Auerbach

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence. — Lera Auerbach

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world. — Berthold Auerbach

Conflict occurs
when two pasts step
on the toes of the present. — Lera Auerbach

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life. — Frank Auerbach

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way ... style. — Frank Auerbach

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. — Red Auerbach

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love. — Red Auerbach

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work. — Berthold Auerbach

I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo. — Dan Auerbach

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection. — Dan Auerbach

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled. — Berthold Auerbach

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil. — Berthold Auerbach

The Western Canon does not exist in order to augment preexisting societal elites. It is there to be read by you and by strangers, so that you and those you will never meet can encounter authentic aesthetic power and the authority of what Baudelaire (and Erich Auerbach after him) called "aesthetic dignity." One — Harold Bloom

Just do what you do best. — Red Auerbach

Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete. — Red Auerbach

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. — Erich Auerbach

If you're keeping score, win. — Red Auerbach

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be. — Red Auerbach

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro! — Russell Tovey

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother. — Berthold Auerbach

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. — Frank Auerbach

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. — Berthold Auerbach

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching. — Frank Auerbach

Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we've forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and so do we, and what was once important fades away. — Dathan Auerbach

And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start a team today, the greatest player and the one guy I would take would be Larry Bird. — Red Auerbach

People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty. — Dan Auerbach

That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits. — Dan Auerbach

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. — Red Auerbach

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end. — Berthold Auerbach

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion. — Berthold Auerbach

Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, Where do the clothes and accessories come from? — Loyd Auerbach

Long before Eichmann's capture, Auerbach had conducted research on Operation 1005, the large-scale secret campaign to destroy evidence of the Final Solution by digging up the mass graves, pulverizing the bodies in specially adapted cement-mixer apparatuses, and erasing all traces of the atrocities. She also found two people who had participated as slave laborers in this effort.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 53 — Deborah E. Lipstadt

What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow. — Berthold Auerbach

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own. — Dan Auerbach

I tend to name albums after one of the songs. — Dan Auerbach

He has the players too happy. — Red Auerbach

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. — Berthold Auerbach

Imagination is the mightiest despot. — Berthold Auerbach

I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument. — Frank Auerbach

You handle animals. You deal with people. — Red Auerbach

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. — Frank Auerbach

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best. — Red Auerbach

Gertrude Stein maintained that one wrote for oneself and for strangers, a superb recognition that I would extend into a parallel apothegm: one reads for oneself and for strangers. The Western Canon does not exist in order to augment preexisting societal elites. It is there to be read by you and by strangers, so that you and those you will never meet can encounter authentic aesthetic power and the authority of what Baudelaire (and Erich Auerbach after him) called "aesthetic dignity." One of the ineluctable stigmata of the canonical is aesthetic dignity, which is not to be hired. — Harold Bloom

My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch. — Dan Auerbach

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found. — Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. — Berthold Auerbach

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club. — Red Auerbach

You can't win without the ball. — Red Auerbach

Years teach us more than books. — Berthold Auerbach

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar. — Dan Auerbach