#ted

Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#being #capable #created #each

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

#became #found #happened #how #hung

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#because #born #day #ever #every

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#develop #enthusiasm #get #gusto #hobby

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds. ↗

— John Zorn

#cloth #drum #drum set #dues #fact

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell. ↗

— John Zorn

#got #i #in print #keep #label

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. ↗

— John Tyler

#being #being responsible #conscience #created #fellow

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to. ↗

— Robert Caro

#generally #hours #i #i quit #late

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work. ↗

— Robert Caro

#leader #lyndon #lyndon johnson #made #majority

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#biographies #called #find #got #hate