top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The world system is employment."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do not be weary to make money."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
Country
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz
"I'm a very, very stubborn man."
Man
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."
Work
"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
Navy
"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
Living
"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
Business
"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."
Education
"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."
Help
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."
Truth
bottom of page