"Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!"

“Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?”

“For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2011.

“Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.”

“The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again.”

“An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.”

Source : Stuart Wilde (1988). “Affirmations”

“Can you imagine Grandmaster Flash on a laptop?”

Source : "Superstar DJ: Dance music visionary on turntable technology" by Paul Oakenfold, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2004.

“We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.”

“Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.”