Douglas Conant Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
-
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
-
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
-
You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
-
Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
-
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
-
Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
-
Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
-
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
-
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
-
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
-
When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
-
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
-
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
-
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
-
I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.
-
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
-
I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
-
The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.
-
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
-
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
-
It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless the access to speeches, documents is unparalleled with the ease of gathering information. If I had had that access when I was an editor or coming up, it would have made my life so much easier. As it was, everything took so much longer.
-
I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.
-
You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.
