"My background was in performing originally."

-- Cy Coleman

#Performing Quotes #Backgrounds Quotes

“You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body of men, tell you where you shall work, or where you shall not work, when you shall work, or when, you shall not work. If a man wants to belong to a labor organization, let him belong. If he does not want to belong to a labor organization, let him have perfect liberty to stay out. You own yourself. Let no man put a manacle on your hand, or foot, or head, or heart.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1886). “The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital”
“I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"”
“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

Source : J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”
“Everybody is so sensitive, you'd think Nolan Ryan was pitching.”
“Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.”
“When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.”

Source : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.57, Harmony
“My plan is to not be leading (worship) at any church until I really feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere else.”

Source : "A conversation with award-winning recording artist David Crowder". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.”

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