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Conducting Quotes

Anthony Trollope quote: "Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself..."
Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart. Anthony Trollope
Colin R. Davis quote: "Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with..."
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. Colin R. Davis
Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors. Carter Burwell
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. Anton Seidl
Muhammad Iqbal quote: "Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the..."
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. Muhammad Iqbal
Matthew Arnold quote: "Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern."
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. Matthew Arnold
Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? To prohibit what they think pernicious is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction. If we were never to act on our opinions, because those opinions ‘lay be wrong, we should leave all our interests uncared for, and all our duties unperformed. An objection... John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill quote: "An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid..."
An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular. John Stuart Mill
...a life in which conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that conduct can only be made to accord with principles by means of daily examination, reflection, and resolution. Arnold Bennett
Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals -- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government -- that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection _against_ the government. Ayn Rand
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. Charles Dickens
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live. George F. Kennan
Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. Johannes P. Muller
The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras. Bobby McFerrin

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