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If a problem is undermining you, the smallest performance becomes an insuperable obstacle. You dread it. Then, miraculously, you clear the hurdle.

Quote by Placido Domingo about obstacles, contentment

Not only do we sing too high but, even more, if you want to respect the spirit of the technique that the composers had at their command in the 19th century, you would have to use the head voice.

Quote by Placido Domingo about voice, heads, use, respect, spirit, contentment

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

Quote by Placido Domingo about nothing, contentment

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

Quote by Placido Domingo about contentment

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about impossible, truth, contentment

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about contentment

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about impossible, old, olderness, truth, contentment

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about truth, impossible, contentment

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about truth, impossible, contentment

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about literature, contentment

If you did well, you were rewarded with middle-class neighborhoods, and I was given a neighborhood with tar-paper shacks, and the people were painfully poor.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about nation, contentment, people

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about flattering, work, contentment

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about man, contentment, good, good luck

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about contentment

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about school, contentment

There are so many people in L.A. trying to get parts who are way better looking than me. You know what I'm saying?

Quote by Josh Duhamel about nation, people, contentment

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about habits, fall, contentment, bad luck, bad

You admire guys like Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, and Sean Penn. They avoid that stereotype so much by choosing these totally off the wall things.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about things, contentment

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about nation, contentment, people

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Quote by Clint Eastwood about rain, faith, contentment