We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.
I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything. "
I don’t think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.
I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scare and hard but pays off in the long run. . . let yourself fail. And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?
You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.
I'm really into everything. Something I've been asked throughout the years I've done the show is, "What kind of music are you into?" I find that to be a bizarre question, because it implies there are people out there that are only into one specific kind of music. But I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music.
You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.
We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.
The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.
National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.
From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God. "