General quotes
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Understanding is a two-way street.
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar — a practice which is still continued.
Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.
If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.
Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
I think about only me.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Let's have some new cliches.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
