“Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.”
“You will not be able to enjoy a good night’s sleep unless you’ve worked hard during the day”
April 2008.
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
Celtic Women in Music interview (1999)
Context: There is a wonderful old Chinese proverb that I love, "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving". I think about my personal approach to musical projects much like a travel writer might approach the preparation for a book. You latch on to a certain theme or historical event and follow that into the unknown, while, at the same time, expanding on those themes.
“A loss doesn’t turn into a lesson unless we work hard to make it so.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.”
Source: Because of Winn-Dixie
“The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.”
Variant: One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of "Creation."
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2, as translated by James Strachey, p.53
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Confidence and Certainty
250 U.S. at 628.
1910s, Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
