"People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice."

-- Benny Goodman

#Practice Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“Mondelez International is a proud signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, an important step to unite governments, NGOs and business to slow and then end forest loss. We can't act alone to halt deforestation or climate change, so we call on everyone to play a role. While it won't be easy, I believe this agenda is achievable if we link it directly to business goals.”
“Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.”
“Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.”
“Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.”
“Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution....”
“Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.”
“If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.”
“Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.”

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