"My success is not who I am."

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Judith Guest

#Success Quotes #Who I Am Quotes

“If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.”
“Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.”

Source : As quoted in "The Ultimate Book of Quotations edited by Joseph Demakis" by Joseph Demakis, (p. 13), 2012.
“The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verificationâ€¦ we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which the statement is true or false.”
“Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in the Philippines during the Marcos overthrow, and I was up on what was called Smokey Mountain. I think it's gone now, but it was a garbage dump with a bunch of people living on it. I was talking to Bob on the phone, and I told him, "I'm a humorist. I can't write about this." And Bob told me to let my style be dictated by the subject, to take what I saw and write about it in the tone that it requires.”
“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”
“If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.”
“The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.”

Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1798). “An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Imporvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers”, p.346, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
“What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!”

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