"I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems."

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Source : Interview with Gabriella for NY Rock Magazine, October 1, 1999.

Chris Cornell

#Jobs Quotes #Independent Quotes #Successful Quotes

“Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.”

Source : Nash Buckingham (1936). “Mark Right!: Tales of Shooting & Fishing”
“Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.”
“I like bold colors but usually wear black.”
“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

Source : "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.
“My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.”

Source : "'Greening of America' Author To Present Lecture Series". Yale Bulletin and Calendar, Volume 29, No. 4, archives.news.yale.edu. September 29, 2000.
“I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.”
“I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.”

Source : Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.46, Beacon Press
“Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.”

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