"When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record."

-- Janis Ian

#Goal Quotes #Records Quotes #Littles Quotes

“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.”

Source : "Patrick Swayze: 'Chemo is Hell on Wheels'", www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2008.
“Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.”

Source : "The 'big lesson' Mike Rowe learned several hundred times" by Mike Rowe, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2014.
“I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.”
“But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.”

Source : "IPCC Official: 'Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth'". Interview with Bernard Potter, www.thegwpf.com. November 14, 2010.
“I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.”
“It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell (1954). “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“[Adviser is] the ones who do the job very well are the ones who lay out the range of options, filter down the range of options that are available to the president, lay them out in an honest, brokerage way and then let the president make the choice among those options.”
“Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All.”

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