Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Women tell men things that they are not likely to find out for themselves.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything.
It’s crazy because, you know, my parents always want me to watch old films to make me realize how amazing some of the older actors are. And I was obsessed as soon as I watched ‘Stand by Me.
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.
I used to be able to read memo’s upside down It was like going to the college of the entertainment business.
Work like you dont need the money, love like youve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.
Darlin… be-bop is the music of the future.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
Because, to give a goal, the ball must be 100% in and he must be 100% sure that the ball is in.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
[On Louis Armstrong] You cant play nothing on modern trumpet that doesnt come from him, not even modern shit. I cant even remember a time when he sounded bad playing the trumpet. Never. Not even one time. He had great feeling up in his playing and he always played on the beat. I just loved the way he played and sang.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Jazz music is the power of now.
Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
My first four jobs were minimum wage or close to it.
