#once

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#burn #concentrate #focus #hand #rays

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. ↗

— Clive Bell

#aesthetic #conceive #critic #degree #emotion

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#concept #conductor #course #great #great secret

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#agreed #authorities #coups #everywhere #freedom

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#first #first thing #i #i think #me

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#happens #hollywood #just #life #once

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#came #clubs #i #into #knew

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#bank #central #central bank #concerns #make

Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to shudder as though in the throes of birth pangs. “So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#night-prince #once-burned #vlad #movies

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#inconceivable #incredible #itself #like #music