"I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself."

-- Joan of Arc

#Leadership Quotes #Used Quotes

“Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?”
“I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.”
“Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.”
“If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me." I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.”
“They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.”
“There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the heighth of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.”

Source : "'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Singer Jimmy Scott". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 16, 2014.
“The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.”
“Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.”

Source : Eugene Field (2012). “Songs and Other Verse”, p.148, tredition

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