#age

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#average #band #business #could #enrolled

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#ever #home #huge #news #newspapers

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government. ↗

— Judd Gregg

#because #been #day #economy #federal

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder. ↗

— William Greider

#capita #citizens #comfortable #continues #country

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job. ↗

— William Greider

#died #job #lived #most #only

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#experience #language #experience

Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a diary of what you do all day and how you feel while doing it. Then, try to do more of what's rewarding, even if it takes an effort, and less of what isn't. Where optimal experience is concerned, he says, "'I just don't have the time' often means 'I just don't have the self-discipline. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#discipline #engagement #focus #experience

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#came #career #company #doing #felt

I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke! ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#constantly #i #joke #life #make

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#business #leader #manager #measure #performance