Kurt Elling Quotes

A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.

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• If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Job
  • Man
  • Government

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• Success is really about your mindset.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Success
  • Mindset
  • Success Is

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Free
  • Church

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Looking

• I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Skin
  • Routines
  • Moisture

• I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• It's not a panacea: there are problems in the world that technology can't fix. You can't fix water shortages. You can't storm a Ministry of the Interior with a cell phone. You can't magically create leaders and institutions overnight. You can't eat it. You can't shield a bullet.

  

  Jared Cohen
  • World
  • Technology
  • Water

• A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

  

  George A. Moore
  • World
  • Home
  • Search

• Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Political

• I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Listening
  • Tired
  • Petty

• A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • World