Michael Levine Quotations

She was a great administrator and a dynamic leader of people, who was very imaginative and very tough-minded.

Great talent used to be the currency. Today it's great PR.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

I aim for 99-percent. I want 99-percent of the people to walk out of the hall elated.

Kids in Vietnam, China, Indonesia and Brazil are doing projects with kids in different parts of the U.S..

Our teacher education system is not geared up for producing these teachers. We need to figure out some incentives.

Patients who have this procedure understand that their shoulder may not do what it did when they were in their twenties, but now they have greater movement and freedom from pain, ... That equates to making a significant difference in our patients' lives.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them

This will bring a dinosaur industry into the 21st century. It's about time something happened.

There are great big multiples of kids who are studying the European languages, but when we think about our economy, and the new markets we are expanding into, it is time to recalibrate some of our attention.

We all started playing in elementary school bands and we haven't forgotten the importance of those experiences. We just feel we want to reach kids as much as possible.

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

We teach them to play with the idea that you can play forever.

To me, ... it's really about inspiration and motivation.

Now children who just drink water are in more danger of getting dehydrated than children who drink flavored drinks. Because if they're drinking a flavored drink, they'll drink more of it so there'll be less chance of them being dehydrated.

They don't know where the limit ends, and how far they can go,

There's always something new out there. You just really have to find what's going to be the hot thing this year.

It was the Koreans' knowledge, not only of the culture, but of the language and the ways of doing business in China, that gave them the upper hand. It wasn't so much the quality of their product as it was the quality of their preparations to make the deals.

It was a very sweet idea. To think of all those women sharing their memories.

It's a huge challenge, actually. We get in there and we roll up our sleeves and start working It's grueling, but personally, I'm so committed to it that I just do it.

Students need to be able to communicate and understand the culture and history of the folks they're going to be working with. Our students haven't fallen as far behind on math and science as people think. Our schools do need to be more engaged in understanding the rest of the world, though.

They want incendiary reactions. Why be a real journalist when you can call Alec Baldwin a moron and get a good photo of him smashing your head?

They want incendiary reactions, ... Why be a real journalist when you can call Alec Baldwin a moron and get a good photo of him smashing your head?

In order to establish early, good, sleep habits, there must be consistency,

Generally it's not as much about being an ensemble band as it is inspiring the kids.

I figured out, if you want kids to come to your concerts, put them on stage. It's cool; it gets them there; it gets their parents there, so it's good for everyone.