Conducting Quotations | Page 3

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

I can say without a shred of doubt that I have never, nor has anyone else that I have ever known, heard of gang members conducting a drive-by shooting while listening to Mozart or Vivaldi. But the same can not be said about 50 Cent - even the opening of his first and hopefully last movie spawned shootings at movie theaters across the country.

I do wear tails . . . I think it would be distracting to wear a long dress. You have to look ultra-formal and in command at the podium because, well, you are in command. Or you'd better be. . . . The music should be done so well that the audience forgets if you're a man or woman. There's nothing about conducting that's gender-specific.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

This is a group of guys who are very loyal, hardworking and trustworthy. They've hit the ground running. They've gotten a great start on recruiting and have been monitoring study hall and conducting individual workouts.

This has come about through some meetings that we were conducting in London with major investment banks ... about education and training needs. Compliance issues have risen to the top of the barrel.

This is a clear signal to Hun Sen and his associates that the United States will not be conducting business as usual with those individuals,

The focus of the program is on managerial challenges involved in conducting HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs and their implementation.

The Indian government has not shot itself in the foot. Most likely it has shot itself in the head, ... By conducting five nuclear tests India made a major miscalculation not merely about the United States but about India's own capability. The Indian government has deluded itself into the absurd assumption that the possession of nuclear weapons will make India into a superpower at a time when hundreds of millions of India's people are in abject poverty.

The documents say they were conducting some kind of investigation. That implies we were under surveillance simply because we were against the war. Our freedoms are being undermined.

The goal of the operation that we are conducting now is to uproot the terrorist activity within the areas that are under control of the Palestinian Authority,

The cleanliness is essential to conducting nano-scale research.

All of the protesters left after conducting a tribal ceremony. There is no more blockade and all access to the mine is normal.

The logistics of conducting a large scale vaccination program, if we're talking on the order of millions, would be enormously complex and difficult to conceive how we would successfully do that,

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

Whether you're a homemaker or a schoolteacher, a lawyer or a doctor, a news anchor or an aerobics instructor, everyone is conducting business each and every day,

When the federal government would actually save millions of dollars by forgoing the status quo and actually sending evacuees on a luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting oversight. A short-term temporary solution has turned into a long-term, grossly overpriced sweetheart deal for a cruise line.