Michael Tilson Thomas Quotes
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
Michael Tilson Thomas
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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
Alan Rickman
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It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
Lou Holtz
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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
Lou Holtz
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
Lou Holtz
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Lou Holtz
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As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.
Xavier Dolan
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In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.
Brian Tracy
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I wasn't used to sitting on the bench. I shouldn't have done it, but I did kind of start to lay back and not work as hard. It's taking a toll on me right now, but I feel I'm starting to gain the confidence of the coaches.
Anthony Charles Edwards
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
Oscar Wilde
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The directors are supposed to be the stewards of their shareholders' investments, but too often act at the behest of the advisory and management companies that run the funds' day-to-day operations.
Eliot Spitzer
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I'm really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that's what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.
Gabourey Sidibe
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I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.
M. Night Shyamalan
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If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.
Red Auerbach
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I didn't feel the need to tell people, except for a very, very few, as it was not in any way affecting my work.
Chris Smith
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What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.
Eero Saarinen
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We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
Michael Tilson Thomas