"To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition."

-- Arturo Sandoval

#Ambition Quotes #Reality Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.”
“Every battalion has its marching songs.”

Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.32, Read Books Ltd
“That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.”
“Look at the footprints you've made.”
“Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You cant be ridiculously disrespectful.”

Source : "Beyond the copy: Xerox CEO keeps focus on the business process". "Conversations from the Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. May 18, 2011.
“People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.”
“The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.”
“The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.”

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