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"A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests."
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"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."
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"Go the extra mile to do the undone, but work within your limits, and in doing so also, don't be a coward to question things within your limit that are not all that right, and don't be too arrogant or proud or be filled with excessive knowledge to do things which might though be within your limit, yet out of limit, for you must live and leave nothing, but distinctive and lasting footprints!"
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"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!"
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!"
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"One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
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"A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests."
Advice
"In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study."
Study
"We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something."
Quality
"The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism."
Life
"Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art."
Art
"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
Artist
"Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers."
Soul
"French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety."
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