Being a director or a conductor is a balance of many things. And to do it right is a very difficult tightrope to walk. I've come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor.
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Related Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen ... JOSHUA BELL Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative a... NICHOLAS MEYER She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Being a cover conductor is really like being an assistant conductor because I'm there as the orchest... MIRIAM BURNS Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficul... LEONARD SLATKIN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed... ANN EDWARDS CANNON To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adven... NICHOLAS MEYER It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who... MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probabl... FELICITY JONES Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�... SUZAN TISDALE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my... DAVID BECKHAM The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO
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JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Even when there is only a 1% chance for success, you have to put in 110% of the work to make that la... JOSHUA LI To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman... JOSHUA FOER What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, ... JOSHUA FOER The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something.... JOSHUA FOER We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but th... JOSHUA FOER I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I ... ANTHONY JOSHUA I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lif... JOSHUA FOER Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it... JOSHUA FOER This (year) is more about walking through the catacombs where the victims are. You get to see more o... JOSHUA REALE I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people ... JOSHUA JACKSON Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, no... ANTHONY JOSHUA Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsessi... ANTHONY JOSHUA Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been ... JOSHUA REYNOLDS In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star. JOSHUA WAITZKIN Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had bee... JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our coll... JOSHUA FOER My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right ... JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. JOSHUA REYNOLDS If all they do is pick out a couple of MPs to slice and dice ... that is not going to be what is nee... JOSHUA DRATEL Video games spark the imagination, empower the mind, and take you to the place where you have always... JOSHUA CLARKE We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in w... JOSHUA FOER I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise ... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible... JOSHUA WAITZKIN One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in t... JOSHUA WAITZKIN I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actual... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER He stops walking and grasps both of my hands to stop me. He narrows his eyes at me. "You’ve never ... ISABELLE JOSHUA A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. JOSHUA REYNOLDS I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is n... JOSHUA FERRIS I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and... JOSHUA FERRIS People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's cra... JOSHUA SASSE One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding b... JOSHUA KADISON Like [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, Assad will be smirking at U.S. discomfiture as Washington s... JOSHUA LANDIS Laughing is a necessity of life. JOSHUA CLARKE