Gene Brown Quotes

The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

Gene Brown

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• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Reason
  • Like
  • Tough

• No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Matter

• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Job
  • Try
  • Circumstances

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Learning
  • Tombstone
  • Diploma

• You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Life
  • Education
  • Pain

• O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Light
  • Drama
  • Summer

• The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

  

  Jaycie Phelps
  • Risk

• I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Music
  • Inspired

• When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.

  

  Martin Heinrich
  • America
  • Energy

• I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Control
  • Focus

• I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Songs

• My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Responsibility

• Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, 'Stay out of politics.' I didn't have any particular allegiance to any particular party.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Up
  • Career
  • Growing

• Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

  

  Leslie Moonves

• Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Sleep
  • Cat
  • Window

• I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Player

• I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.

  

  Christian Kane

• Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.

  

  Paul Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Women
  • Done

• The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

  

  Gene Brown
  • Sleep
  • Hours
  • Setting