An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria CallasRead
What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
Interpretation
Work is essential for a fulfilling life and self-respect.
In this quote, Maria Callas emphasizes the importance of work as a foundation for a meaningful life. She suggests that mere sensory experiences are not sufficient for true fulfillment; instead, it is through hard work and the pursuit of excellence that one can achieve self-respect and a deeper sense of purpose.
In practice
During a motivational speech about career development.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
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