Art Blakey Quotes

...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

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• Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Business
  • Team
  • Impact

• I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Time
  • Game
  • Know

• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

  

  Iman
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Treat

• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
  • Sleep

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Year
  • United States

• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Temptation

• I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Picture
  • Paint

• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Getting Older

• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dad

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • Mad
  • Race

• I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Think

• It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • True
  • Smile

• There's an identity thing that goes on where you spend so much time caring for your child that, after a year or so, you have to shake it off and go, 'Who am I?'

  

  Kristian Bush Sugarland
  • Time
  • Identity
  • Caring

• I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Money
  • Charity
  • Institution

• The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate school.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Country
  • Children
  • School

• ...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Time
  • Mistake