Beverly Sills famous quotes

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
-- Beverly Sills

#Positive #Shortcuts

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
-- Beverly Sills

#Happiness #Inner Peace #Cheerful

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.
-- Beverly Sills

#Shortcuts

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
-- Beverly Sills

#Feel Better #Maturity #Giving

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
-- Beverly Sills

#Success #Acceptance #Past

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
-- Beverly Sills

#Love #Spiritual #Attachment

Art is the signature of civilizations.
-- Beverly Sills

#Inspirational #Art #Acceptance

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
-- Beverly Sills

#Art #Voice #Excess

When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.
-- Beverly Sills

#World

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
-- Beverly Sills

#Caviar #Might #Garbage

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
-- Beverly Sills

#Believe #People #Matter

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
-- Beverly Sills

#Long #Listening #Opera

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
-- Beverly Sills

#Defeat

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
-- Beverly Sills

#Hype #Superstar #Fame

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
-- Beverly Sills

#Thinking #People #Cheerful

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
-- Beverly Sills

#Artist #Careers #Triumph

Don't get me started on critics.
-- Beverly Sills

#Critics

I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
-- Beverly Sills

#Work #Passion #Simple

I never share credit or desserts.
-- Beverly Sills

#Credit #Dessert #Share

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
-- Beverly Sills

#Cheerful #Cheerfulness

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.
-- Beverly Sills

#Inspirational #Credit #Blame

There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
-- Beverly Sills

#People #Awful #Skinny

There is no short cut to a place worth going.
-- Beverly Sills

#Cutting #Achievement

The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.
-- Beverly Sills

#War #Childhood #Nuclear

As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.
-- Beverly Sills

#Funny #Running #Dog

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
-- Beverly Sills

#Ruins #Evening

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
-- Beverly Sills

#Careers #Voice #Long

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
-- Beverly Sills

#Inspirational #Strength #Being Strong

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
-- Beverly Sills

#Reality #Boss #Anxiety

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
-- Beverly Sills

#Art #Perception #Environmental

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
-- Beverly Sills

#Running #Time #Age

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
-- Beverly Sills

#Brother #Men #Desire

The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
-- Beverly Sills

#Children #Memorable #Ease