One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
BRANFORD MARSALISTo take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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It’s great to do commercial movies; they are fun. You’re doing stunts, you are running around, there is a lot of money involved in the production; there are incredible sets and designs.
LUCY LIU -
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG -
Knowledge isn’t always good for you.
RICK RIORDAN -
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
How many people you bless is how you measure success.
RICK ROSS -
We say we love ourselves but allow others to mistreat us. How?
SAMANTHA KING HOLMES -
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
EZRA TAFT BENSON -
I was going to be a scientist.
BEN OKRI -
I feel like now if you’re going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or “We’re in a library for some reason!”
BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE -
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
You could see a butterfly as just a butterfly, or you could see it as an iridescent flower amidst the endless periwinkle blue skies.
SARAH SHAWKAT -
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A. A. MILNE -
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
EMILE DURKHEIM