"In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'."

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Source : Source: deadline.com

Jackie Schaffer

#Thinking Quotes #Principles Quotes #Use Quotes

“See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.”

Source : Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity”, p.332, Workman Publishing
“You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.”
“Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did.”

Source : Woody Herman, Stuart Troup (1990). “The Woodchopper's Ball: The Autobiography of Woody Herman”, New York : E.P. Dutton
“Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.”
“In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.”
“The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music in a computer. But when it comes to doing live processing, I prefer, as a performer with an instrument, not just having the computer as the only thing I have. I really prefer and find it much more flexible to have the limitations of pedals.”
“The best evidence of a mind is when you change it”
“That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.”

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