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"I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis."
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"Begin when you have the strength. You have it now, therefore the best time to begin is now."
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"Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions, they never walk alone!"
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Personal Development
"Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation."
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Personal Development
"Do it or not, but do."
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"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."
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Personal Development
"Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking."
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Personal Development
"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
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"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."
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Personal Development
"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
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"Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do."
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"I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis."
Action
"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study."
Music
"The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure."
God
"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books."
Books
"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
Composer
"Composers are not all good conductors."
Composer
"Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift."
Art
"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."
Acting
"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
Artist
"It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities."
Nonsense
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