Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.
It's fun until someone gets hurt. . . then it's hilarious.
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.
Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.
I'm that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn't want that to be all I'm known for, but it's a bit of a differentiator.
As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.
I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.
I'm as awkward as it gets, dude, but I embrace the awkward! I embrace the awkward and make everyone else feel awkward
The longer you work here, diverse it gets.
I mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I know what he's gonna do after he gets through. You know, when you see that thing on their face - like: "Entertain me. " You know what I mean? Even the black guy that's trying to be white - even he can have that crap on his face.
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.
When it gets easy, I worry about things.
It never gets easier; you just go faster.
My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.
I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently.
What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.
The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes. Ignoring gets you a whole way out there. The good news is that by simply looking at something that somebody has done, scanning it and saying "Uh huh," that seems to be quite sufficient to dramatically improve people's motivations.
Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.