Martin Svoboda

“Remember, when someone says ‘you’ve changed,’ it usually just means you’ve stopped living your life their way.”

“I like composing music, but I love being with my family.”

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”

“Economics is just like managing your household.”

“We will stand on principle, or we will not stand at all.”

“If you take the tough decisions, people will hate you today, but they will love you in generations.”

“Actions speak louder than words. So believe what you see and forget what you heard.”

“And if you ever need a friend then you got me And in the end, when I die, would you watch me? And if I try suicide, would you stop me? Would you help me get a grip or would you drop me?”

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”

“I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.”

“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”

“Anything that has a beginning has to automatically have an end. This is the universal law of polarity. So, if there was a beginning to your wounding, there is also an end to it.”

“When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.”

“If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.”

“It is thought that justice is equality, and so it is, though not for everybody but only for those who are equals; and it is thought that inequality is just, for so indeed it is, though not for everybody, but for those who are unequal.”

“Runnin' away from you takes time and pain And I don't even want to So, I'm gettin' high all week without you Poppin' pills, thinkin' about you”

“Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.”

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes, it is letting go.”