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“A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.”

Should Firsts Difficult Party Pieces Directors Bases Appearance Impression Chosen Conductor Containing First Date

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.”

Men Writing Firsts Young Girl Found Sex Difficult Events Scene Horse Satisfied Get Up Attractive Young Man Playwright

Author:Peter Shaffer

“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.”

Writing Firsts Children Different Would Be Young Used Found Difficult Four Baby Months Accomplish Accomplish Nothing

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.”

“Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.”

Firsts Difficult Breaths Solidarity Difficult Things Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Deep Life

Book:Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

Source: Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

“My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.”

Thinking Firsts Shows Bigs Difficult Opening Frank Gigs Zappa

Author:Tom Waits

“I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.”

Knows Firsts Stills Book Happens Difficult Behinds Novel Knowing Industry Scene Office First Time Leap Elites Publishing Occasional Behind The Scenes Insiders Working Behind The Scenes

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”

Writing Trying Firsts Book Reading Difficult Originals Trade Productions Destroying Daring Books And Reading Great Author

Author:Andre Maurois

“If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.”

Source: Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.”

Ifs Giving Should Firsts Energy Difficult Lists Things To Do Procrastination Items Momentum Frogs Procrastinating

Author:Brian Tracy

“...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.”

Thinking World Firsts Two Difficult Pieces Masters Add Insight Two Things Each Day This Day Buried

Author:Edwin Land

“It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.”

Years Firsts Play Home Today Lasts Winning Difficult Steps Last Year Right Direction Steps In The Right Direction

Author:Gustavo Kuerten

“Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.”

Firsts Life Is Difficult Daring Bad Times Avant Garde Life Is Difficult

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time.”

World Firsts Might Difficult Wife Seeing Brother My Wife Grieving My Brother Mourning Touched Allowing Difficult Times Tribute Everly Brothers

Author:Don Everly