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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."
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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."
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Personal Development
"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
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"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."
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"Character is what can do without success."
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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
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"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
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"Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people."
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"Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success."
Success
"Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there."
Man
"Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them."
Family
"I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character."
Character
"Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II."
War
"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor."
Play
"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
Disaster
"As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?"
People
"I was different from most young conductors today."
Today
"I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy."
People
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