#ding

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#day #during #i #preceding #stay

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ↗

— Walt Disney

#curiosity #curious #doing #doors #down

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#anyone #around #concede #consumer #experience

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#above #became #betrayed #commerce #dear

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#more #never #orchestra #per #recording

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#beautiful #been #close #darkest #even

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#austen #because #characters #dickens #effectively

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#books #deliberately #emotionally #i #i think

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#blank #blank page #days #down #five

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#readers #reading #family