A Quote by Dimitris Mitropoulos

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

Dimitris Mitropoulos

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Dimitris Mitropoulos
Greek - Conductor
March 1, 1896 - November 2, 1960

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

George Bernard Shaw

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Dorothea Lange

When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.

Yukio Mishima

He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.

Swami Vivekananda

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Laurence J. Peter

A lion can't stay in a cage. A lion has to be on the pitch.

Paolo Di Canio

The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.

Henry Ward Beecher

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

Charles Bukowski

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Woody Allen

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Frans Lanting

The lion doesn't care that the sheep laugh at him. Remember that. The lion just stays there. The animals make noise and tease. The guy with the belt is the lion.

B. J. Penn

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Sheldon Vanauken

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!