"There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s."

-- Gary Burton

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“Sigourney Weaver is a wonderful person. I was so lucky to have the opportunity to meet and work with such an amazing actress. I believe that our chemistry was immediate from the moment we met, and continued to grow. She helped to make me feel comfortable during all the scenes that were filmed.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.”
“As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.”

Source : Richard F. Lovelace (1979). “Dynamics of Spiritual Life”, p.160, InterVarsity Press
“I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.”
“It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.”
“Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.”
“Itâ€™s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people heâ€™s leading to realize whatever heâ€™s dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, â€˜I have a dream. Of course, Iâ€™m not sure theyâ€™ll be up to it.”
“My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.”

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