Kurt Elling Quotes

You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form.

Kurt Elling

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• Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Together

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Great
  • Win

• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Dog

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Sometimes
  • Cold
  • Skin

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• 'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Girl
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• Lovers should also have their days off.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Lovers
  • Days
  • Off

• When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Female
  • Conquest

• Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Technology

• Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Air

• Cecil Forrester was heir to many misfortunes, being handsome, rich, high-born, and clever.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • High
  • Clever

• Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • People
  • Character

• 'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • Experience
  • Mother
  • Strong

• You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Art