Beverly Sills Quotes

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  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

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  Reality, Anxiety, Boss

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• I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

  Beverly Sills

  Cheerful, Cheerfulness, I Can

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• I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Credit, Blame

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• In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

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  Running, Time, Getting Older

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• A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

  Beverly Sills

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Cheerful

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• I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

  Beverly Sills

  Love, Feel Better, Maturity

  "Bubbles: A Self-portrait". Book by Beverly Sills, p. 114, 1976.

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• Art is the signature of civilizations.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Art, Acceptance

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women". Book by Rosalie Maggio, 1992.

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• There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Shortcuts

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• I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  "Beverly: An Autobiography". Book by Lawrence Linderman, p. 356, 1988.

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• There is no short cut to a place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Cutting, Achievement, Short Cuts

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• Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

  Beverly Sills

  Trying, Prove It, Knows

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• A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

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  Art, Perception, Environmental

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• Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

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  Love, Spiritual, Attachment

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• I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

  Beverly Sills

  Thinking, People, Cheerful

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• I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.

  Beverly Sills

  Believe, People, Matter

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women". Book by Rosalie Maggio, 1992.

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• There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Time, Volume 120, 1982.

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• 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

  Careers, Voice, Long

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women". Book by Rosalie Maggio, 1992.

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• There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

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  Artist, Careers, Triumph

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• Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

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  Beautiful, Meaningful, Drama

  Beverly Sills (1981). “Bubbles: an encore”

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• It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them

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  Important, One Love

  Beverly Sills (1981). “Bubbles: an encore”

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• There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

  Beverly Sills

  People, Awful, Skinny

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• Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

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  Art, Indulge In, Direct Effect

  "Beverly: An Autobiography". Book by Lawrence Linderman, 1987.

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• The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.

  Beverly Sills

  War, Childhood, Nuclear

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