Virgil Thomson Quotes

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 25, 1896 - September 30, 1989

Topics

FearTimeLearnDoingYouThree

In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.

John Hickenlooper

BusinessRestaurantLearnYouMargin

It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

Robert Kiyosaki

FreedomTimeMoneyHealingStart

In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.

Stan Wawrinka

TimeMistakeYouPlayMoreDays

While some of the critics are voicing legitimate concerns about the merits of a system of academic benchmarks, Common Core is frequently a straw man for the frustrations conservatives have with the federal government.

Sonny Perdue

ManGovernmentCriticsSystemStraw

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Shirley Manson

MusicPeopleFamousWantBelieving

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

Luis Figo

DayFootballFightEvery DayPlace

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

Joshua Lederberg

SittingRightThingsUsJustFront

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

Drew Barrymore

DayYouEvery DayAliveOutPlanet

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

David Whyte

LifeGoodFaceLossLooksEqual

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

Chris Hemsworth

LifeLovePeopleBattleApproach

I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading details, you know? There's something I really miss about that.

Chris Pratt

Growing UpDetailsYouGrowingKnow

I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.

Alice Sebold

ReadingChurchComicsPewMostly

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