#once

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time. ↗

— George Shearing

#assume #better #current #duke #duke ellington

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto. ↗

— George Shearing

#few #first #i #movement #mozart

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#becomes #complicated #far #fast #find

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#come #concept #enough #good #people

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chief concern #chinese #chinese people #concern #confucianism

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#career #deserves #dignity #every #had

I think once every person on the planet sees 'New Moon' and there's nobody left who hasn't see it, then I think they'll be able to go see 'Ninja.' ↗

— Joel Silver

#every #go #hasn #i #i think

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week. ↗

— Nate Silver

#buy #i #maybe #new #new york

Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks. ↗

— Ron Silver

#attacks #concessions #east #face #forced

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#believe #centered #derived #happiness #happy