"I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were my only option. The people who make it to the top are addicted to their calling. You have to honor the gift God has given you. The people who get the call are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid."

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Source : Quincy Jones (2002). “Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones”, p.266, Three Rivers Press

Quincy Jones

#Dream Quotes #Adventure Quotes #People Quotes

“From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.”
“I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.”
“Silence is a great source of strength.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.5, Green Dragon Books
“When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.”
“The Web makes people hypocritical, it encourages to take pseudonymes”
“You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.”
“Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?”

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