"You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing."

-- Sam J. Jones

#Careers Quotes #Phones Quotes #Months Quotes

“I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.”
“I marvel now that it was not obvious how inextricable suffering and fear are. It was not until fear left that I noticed, slowly, how it seemed to have taken suffering with it. It took a while to figure out that (for me, anyhow) suffering is mostly caused by fear-not by the circumstances themselves, but by my response to them.”

Source : Jan Frazier, Barbi Schulick (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.103, Weiser Books
“If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.”
“God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.”

Source : "Canada's Best Service for British Ideals". 1913.
“Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.”
“I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.”
“My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd start the scale on the root of the chord and I'd go as far as my hand would reach without going out of position, say, five frets, and then I'd go all the way back. So when ! practised I'd start right away on scales. As well as the usual ones, I'd play whole tone scales, diminished, dominant sevenths, and chromatic scales. Every chord form, all the way up, and this took an hour.”
“Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.”

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