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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.

Quincy Jones

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
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Learning Listening Reality Talk Yourself
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit Myself
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Early Memories Myself
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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Inspirational Preparation Success Yourself
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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Art Emotional Important Military Yourself
My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Door Lock Mom Problem Security System
I was married for 36 years but now I’m free.
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Divorce Freedom Marriage Myself
When you’re over the hill, that’s when you pick up speed.
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Deep Fall Place Speed Yourself
What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I’m needed by someone. As long as you have that, you’re healthy.
QUINCY JONES

Day Health Need Talk Yourself
Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.
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People Travel Young Yourself
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Ground Industry Myself Place

Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.

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