Eric Benet Quotes
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
Sam Trammell -
To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.
Naveen Jain -
Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
Daniel Barenboim -
I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
Lena Horne -
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it.
Ben Harper -
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
Abraham Flexner
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I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that. So he was nervous about that and I understand that if that's what he thought. So we spent 10 or 15 minutes just talking about stuff and reiterating the commitment we've always had.
Larry Miller -
Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
Lois Wyse -
No one's really worried about inflation right now.
Alice Rivlin -
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
Kingsley Amis -
There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
Oprah Winfrey -
For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.
Barack Obama
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G. I. Gurdjieff -
I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!
David Bowie -
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Hermann Hesse -
It was like a dream. It happened so fast from the day we got the record and from the day we did American Bandstand. Everybody (in the band) got a gold record from the recording industry.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians -
Performance in an endurance sport, as with many things, is only as good as the weakest link.
Brendan Brazier