The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.
The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.
You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.
Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.
Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?