Virgil Thomson Quotes

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • You
  • Never
  • Model

• You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • History
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Think
  • Because
  • Welcome

• I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Inspiring

• I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Down

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Happy
  • Eyes
  • Blues

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Child

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • Truth
  • Question

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Always
  • Entrepreneur

• For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Learning
  • Books
  • Library

• When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. I'd get up and look in the mirror and my eyes were sad.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Thinking
  • Mirror
  • Wake Up

• We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

  

  Gary Player
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Thoughts

• Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Fear
  • Wisdom
  • Failure