Eugene Ormandy Quotes

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Eugene Ormandy

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• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Important
  • House

• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Period

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Dad
  • Boy
  • Doing

• It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Funny
  • Party
  • Chance

• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Kindness

• So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Energy
  • Relationship
  • Inspiration

• A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge

• You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Mistake

• I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Stop
  • Positive

• My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since.

  

  Danny McBride
  • Job
  • Magic

• Working with Victoria's Secret, it is very celebrated to have curves.

  

  Elsa Hosk

• Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

  

  John Foster
  • Good
  • Japanese

• When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Moving

• It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Good
  • Done
  • Business

• A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. … Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Family
  • Money
  • Earth

• I really want to be able to work in cinema. So one of my long-term goals is to score films. I think probably horror – because that’s my favourite genre.

  

  Bright Light Bright Light
  • Goals
  • Horror
  • Cinema

• I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Insecurity
  • Concert
  • Tempo