Posts from ‘July, 2008’

After about three lessons the voice teacher said, “Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.”
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I [...]

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.~Eleanor Roosevelt
You can always tell a real friend; when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.~Laurence Sterne
You are not very good if you are not better than your best [...]

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in [...]

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Hope is necessary in every condition.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid [...]

These are some quotes on quality by quality pioneer W Edwards Deming of the popular deming awards:
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
Learning is not compulsory but neither is [...]

Knowledge is power.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
In charity there is no excess.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, [...]

I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it- walk.
There are two sides to every issue: [...]

Realists do not fear the results of their study.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.
To love someone means [...]

I hardly ever go back because there I don’t return as an acclaimed director, but rather as a little boy. There, I still feel like a little boy.
Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I [...]

The brain is wider than the sky; For put them side by side The one the other will contain with ease – And you beside.
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
We turn not older with years, but newer every [...]