Martin Svoboda

“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.”

“The trick is growing up without growing old.”

“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.”

“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”

“Be with someone who is proud of you.”

“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.”

“Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”

“If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.”

“It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

“The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints, this is where we have the problem.”

“You can’t change how people feel about you, so don’t try. Just live your life and be happy.”

“I've learned now that this world isn't like Mother and Father. It doesn't care if we're happy, and it doesn't get sad when we die. We don't really matter to it at all.”

“Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.”

“There are many ways to motivate people to do things, but loyalty comes from the ability to inspire people.”

“Why do things have to die? It is nature. And nature is flawed.”

“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”

“This place makes me think about the mistakes I've made in the past… and I've made so many of them.”

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”

“The problem isn’t that we don’t know how not to get punched in the face. The problem is that, at some point, likely a long time ago, we got punched in the face, and instead of punching back, we decided we deserved it.”