#demands

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #consistency #demands #getting #hard

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#excuse #never #perjury #respect #truth

Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men! ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#demands #doing #like #married #married men

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#antidote #bosses #concentration #demands #disaster

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#column #demands #doing #i #instantly

Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear. ↗

— Johnny Olson

#average #baritone #because #clear #demands

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. ↗

— Sean Penn

#comedies #demands #done #draining #drama

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. ↗