"I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down."

-- Steve Lacy

#Pianist Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I think that when you start your own business you have to be very clear on what you're passionate about and what your values are. I was very passionate about travel and I wanted to inspire other people. At the same time, I knew if I was going to start my own business, it was going to have to mirror my values, and I knew I was passionate about the environment and about sustainability.”
“I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end!”
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
“What level of crazy is too much for you? I'm just curious.”
“And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.”
“I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK because I don't like their games.”

Source : "Q&A: New Coyotes Coach Rick Tocchet on a Young Franchise and Lessons From Pittsburgh" by Alex Prewitt, sports.yahoo.com. September 7, 2017.
“There's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.”
“What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just storiesâ€”descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.”

Source : Duncan J. Watts (2011). “Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer”, p.27, Crown Business

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