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Any manager can do well in an expanding market. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#expanding #manager #market #well

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that! ↗

— Robert Crumb

#away #backed #bastards #became #bizarre

I think we're in a very low point of music right now. ↗

— George Crumb

#i think #low #low point #music #now

Learning something new is fun. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#learning #new #something

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#anything #change #future #i #i can

Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#crucifix #death #grief #jesus #loss

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. ↗

— George Crumb

#basic #basic elements #central #directly #elements

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. ↗

— George Crumb

#composers #creatures #crisis #earthly #face

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary world #culture #due #earlier #extensions

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar. ↗

— Billy Crystal

#aside #auto #biggest #export #going