When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!
If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.
That's the name of the game. . . pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.
In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.
I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.