"It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much."

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Source : Usa Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan, www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

Billy Sheehan

#Important Quotes #Desire Quotes #Burning Quotes

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.”
“My actions are my only true belongings.”
“The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.”
“Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable, but there's a different kind of value - and a competitive edge - in processing ongoing streams of data through a software model that can quickly and constantly make predictions about, say, whether a certain customer is going to defect, or an aircraft is going to run into trouble.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

Source : Dr. Seuss (1998). “Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor”, Random House Books for Young Readers
“Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the end of June. Thursday. Almost noon. And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don't know why. I'm sorry Hailey. I don't know what to do.”
“That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

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