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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• The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Know
  • Act

• 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

• The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Sunday

• 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

• I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture

  

  Max Beckmann
  • World
  • God
  • Vision

• Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Past
  • Words
  • Eyes

• I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

  

  William Maxwell
  • Doors
  • Leave
  • Gone

• 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