"In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first."

-- Garson Kanin

#Jobs Quotes #Work Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.”

Source : Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
“Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.”

Source : "Earth Day at 40: Environmental movement has undergone significant change" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. March 23, 2011.
“When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.”

Source : "Erin Gray, then and now: an interview" by Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.
“I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.”
“Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the record I don't look at the music by classifying it. People have a problem classifying me as pop, or rock, or folk, or alt. The beauty for me is that a thirteen year old girl can fall in love with the record and so can her mom. I tend to gravitate towards artists that are timeless and don't sound dated.”
“Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.”
“Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.126, e-artnow

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