“Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out.”
W. C. Handy (1873–1958) American blues composer and musician
Music Preservation Society biography http://www.wchandymusicfestival.org/downloads/HandyBiography.pdf <br class="br">Variant: Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
“Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 51
Ire Aderinokun (1991) Nigerian front end developer
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5PfGItfqg8 Ire Aderinokun speaking on Rejection.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
As quoted in Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena (1998) by Varla Ventura, p. 150
“When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.”
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
Ch. 2, section V http://books.google.com/books?id=xXxWIS_KF5gC&q=%22When+Fortuna+spins+you+downward+go+out+to+a+movie+and+get+more+out+of+life%22&pg=PA48#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous)
“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“Life is like a sewer — what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.
Introduction to "We Will All Go Together When We Go"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)
“People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
Source: Along for the Ride
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant transcription from "Death of a Genius" in Life Magazine: "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives."
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 143
