Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
-
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
-
I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
-
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
-
What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
-
I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
-
The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
-
I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
-
Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
-
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
-
I think you try to improve every season and every game and be prepared about certain defensemen you're playing against, certain ways to find open ice.
-
One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
-
For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
-
Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?
-
But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their pollen. Trees can't move either, but birds and animals eat their fruit and carry their seeds far and wide.
-
The Queen is above it all
-
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
-
But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.
-
I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.
-
It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.
-
You don't need the fame to be vital.
