Bela Fleck Quotes
I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.
Quotes to Explore
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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Distinction between person and office is wholly alien to the teaching of Jesus. He says nothing about that. He addresses his disciples as men who have left all to follow him, and the precept of non-violence applies equally to private life and official duty. He is the Lord of all life, and demands undivided allegiance.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.
