"The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality."

-- Fritz Reiner

#Effort Quotes #Musical Quotes #Technique Quotes

“We had to communicate through our lawyers a couple of times over the years, and [David Petraeus] told me that people have been like, "Good job, Dave." Congratulating him. That's the double standard. I've concluded that sharing it won't change anything.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”
“You're always first when no one's on your side.”
“I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone.”
“Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.”
“A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.”
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

Source : In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47
“You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.”

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