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“I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.”

“This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.”

Men Seems Type Highest Ideals Transformation Patient Motive Great Men Good Man Be A Man Seeming Conducting Self Transformation

Author:Ossian Everett Mills

“While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.”

Humans Character Law Individual Natural Cases Divine Morality Obligation Preserves Acknowledge Gentleman Scotland Conducting

Author:George Combe

“Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.”

“In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.”

Years Real Remember House Imagination Six Concerts Remember When My Imagination Conducting Six Year Olds

Author:Gustavo Dudamel

“A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.”

Way Should Moments Feelings Artist Actors Acting Stage Theater Priests Incapable Altars Conducting True Artists Stage Actors Theatre Acting Stage Acting Acting From Actors

Book:Building A Character

Source: Building A Character

“During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose as one man and applauded him. When the spontaneous cheering has subsided, Toscanini turned to his men, tears glistening in his eyes. "Please . . . please! Don't do this! You see, gentlemen, it isn't me you should applaud. It's Beethoven!"”

Men Should Eye Tears Please Members Moved Rose Gentleman His Eyes One Man Cheer Spontaneous Orchestra Rehearsal Symphony Conducting

Author:James Keller

“It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.”

Wells Stills Half Known Steps Middle Type Vices East Lawyer Campaigns Naked Temples Empires Well Known Palaces Disobedience Civil Disobedience Conducting Posing Regal

Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.”

Important Care Existence Approach Everyday Extremes Factors Balanced Skillful Conducting

Book:The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

“The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.”

Knows Kind Said Reason Problem Would Be Action Purpose Order Asks Virtue Study Advantage Determine Characteristics Inquiry Our Actions Attainment Conducting

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business all over the world as if they are conducting business in their own backyards.”

Ifs World Greater Risk Traveler Backyards Conducting

Author:Mark Hall

“When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.”

Years Firsts Would Be Pieces Europe Years Ago Accepted Guests Propose Conductor Conducting

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or another.”

Ideas Science Results Principles Research Accounts Difficulty Method Historical Firm Grounded Binding Plausible Epistemology Conducting Unchanging Historical Research

Book:Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge

Source: Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge

“In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.”

Thinking Whole Feelings Orchestra Conducting Thinking Ahead

Author:David Amram

“I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.”

Needs Important Different Three Support Teaching Perspective Ears Important Things Concerts Three Things Different Perspective Conducting

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow.”

Trying Jobs Difficult Realizing Example Tomorrow Inspired Peaceful Occasions Convince Als Good Job Al Qaeda Conducting

Author:George W. Bush

“I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.”

Knows Funny Orchestra Tempo Conducting

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.”

Trying Helping Funny Orchestra Conducting

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?”

Trying Funny Orchestra Conducting

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.”

Has Beens Made Seems Poet Filled University Careful Made It Novelists Imitation Discretion Conducting Eliot Demure

Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.”

Needs Mean Method Satisfaction Punishment Enjoyment Caution Conducting Enticing

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.”

Years Next Our Lives Communication Internet Tied Conducting

Author:Bob Parsons

“Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.”

Hands Guy Wish Music Design Messages Draws Sticks Ties Fishing Bows Conducting Bow Tie

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.”

Done Performances Thirds Phones Rings Concerts Bugs Orchestra Conducting

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“Conducting is a strange thing to teach.”

Teach Strange Strange Things Conducting

Author:Joshua Bell

“Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.”

Singing Breathing Piano Conducting Piano Playing

Author:Colin Davis

“For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.”

Firsts Children Different Together Three Hours Four Week Eight Nine Orchestra Rehearsal Symphony Conducting Mahler Tchaikovsky

Author:Gustavo Dudamel

“Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.”

World Looks Understanding Issues Research Institutions Climate Climate Change Guts Conducting

Author:Peter Garrett

“We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.”

People Believe Terrorist Instance Agents Suspects Philippines Conducting

Author:Ali Khamenei

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