Age Quotes - Page 199

There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.

Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.

One man with courage is a majority.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.