"It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose."

-- Tom Waits

#Art Quotes #Player Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.”
“Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship as part of his responsibility to the enterprise itself. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.”
“When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.”
“I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone else... It is true that I noticed things that no one else seemed to notice. And I think only people who are outsiders do this.”
“For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.”
“"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "”
“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”
“Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.”

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