When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
Faith guides even us and we follow its sure light on the way which conducts us to God and His homeland.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.
Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.
