#om

We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live. ↗

— Arthur Blank

#colleagues #communities #continue #customer #customer service

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#around #engine #happens #i #like

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants. ↗

— Bo Bice

#contestants #first #folks #get #green

He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi shows where they oxygenate the planet, but for my dad it’s in a suffocating reverse. He replaces the clean wholesome air with a non-stop puff of toxic poison. ↗

— Tom Conrad

#apocalypse #breathe #end-of-the-world #family-saga #oxygen

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. ↗

— Acker Bilk

#come #going #i #i think #i wonder

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#come #deep #enough #good #only

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.' ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#men #never #terms #thought #women

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. ↗

— Allen Toussaint

#breathing #escapist #everything #garden #homegrown

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #being #complex #complexity #could

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#gossip #me #national #national pastime #our