Conducting Quotes - Page 8

• Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Stupid, Common Sense, Prejudice

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.284

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• There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Lines, Gestures, Bass

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Laurence Equilbey, logger.believermag.com. There Will Be Joy.

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• It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Lying, World, Enough

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• If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Men, Becoming

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.139, Rajpal & Sons

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• The 9/11 Commission said that this tracking system would be a high priority and would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in august and September in 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/11 hijackers that were in the United States expired visas.

  Donald Trump

  August, Law, Two

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• People, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn these resources into useful products and services. If we do a good job, customers pay us more for our products than the sum of our costs in producing and distributing them. This difference, our profit, represents the value we add to the resources we utilize.

  David Packard

  Jobs, Skills, Differences

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• There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

  Henry Taylor

  Character, Men, Tests

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.101

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• Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!

  Kirsten Dunst

  Normal, Conferences, Known

  "Melancholia - Kirsten Dunst interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do.

  Freddie Highmore

  Character, Guitar, August

  "Freddie Highmore, Kerri Russell, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Find Family in August Rush". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 21, 2007.

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