Quotes by American Authors - Page 128

Don't play what's there play what's not there.
Miles Davis
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.
John Cage
Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.
Frank McKinney
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.
Miles Davis
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
Gail Sheehy
Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
Harrison Ford
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
Gail Sheehy
Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
Harrison Ford
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary whatever the punishment once a specific crime has appeared for the first time its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren
A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.
Tom Landry
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
O. J. Simpson
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
Eric Hoffer
There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment and the hope of reward.
John M. Wilson
Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
John F. Milburn
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald
What allows us as human beings to psychologically survive life on earth with all of its pain drama and challenges is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara De Angelis
When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Brenda Ueland
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash
What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.
Eleanor H. Porter
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Marge Piercy
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck
What you praise you increase.
Catherine Ponder
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you they will honor and serve you.
Mary Kay Ash
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Helen Hunt Jackson
There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A loafer never works except when there is a fire then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
Edgar Watson Howe
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Louis L'Amour
If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.
Mary Kay Ash
I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.
Carmen Basilio
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Eric Hoffer
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be successful rich and famous but if those are our goals we're off on the wrong foot. ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
Phyllis Whitney
The breakfast of champions is not cereal it's the opposition.
Nick Seitz
Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige
I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
Fred Astaire
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
T.S Eliot
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
Henry Ward Beecher
I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Donald Trump
Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living a support in misfortune an education or future security.
Sylvia Porter
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart
To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder convince yourself that if you miss it you will be embarrassed and poor.
Jack Nicklaus
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Mary Kay Ash
To feel valued to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters
Everyone expects to go further than his father went everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
William Allen White
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
In my experience there is only one motivation and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
Pat Riley
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Robert H. Jackson
When you get hungry enough you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.
Josh Gibson
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."
Ted Williams
I believe in using words not fists.
Susan Sarandon
I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.
Bill Russell
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
Merlin Olsen