"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."

-- Norman Granz

#Records Quotes #Sabbatical Quotes #Juice Quotes

“It`s not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let`s put it on display and have some fun.”
“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.”
“There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
“I may not have the stereotypical head for business, but I have feet that were made for heels.”
“The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.”
“Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”

Source : Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“But I think itâ€™s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkableâ€”to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environmentâ€”to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.”

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