So, I play in a band. It's a really underground band. Super underground. Very underground. Like, we don't even actually play.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people
I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots at JFK. I took that tour and met some conspiracy buffs, all of us standing at the gunman’s window and looking down to the spot where the motorcade passed. It’s right there below the window, an easy shot at a slow-moving car. No mystery, just a kid and a rifle and a tragedy. They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.
I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.
I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.