This is a collaborative enterprise," she says. "You have to surround yourself with good people and help them to do what they do well, as opposed to micromanaging.
I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.
Sometimes I say some things people may think are just outlandish, but I'm going to have the last laugh.
I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.
Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output
It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.
If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible torments and there was nothing I could ever do for them, that, to me, would be Hell.
Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.
There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.
We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do.
You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it.
Every day, or at least twice a week, take a few minutes and focus on seeing yourself in joy. Feel yourself in joy. Imagine only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it. As you do this the Universe will move all people, circumstances, and events to bring you joy, joy and more joy.
Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.
There were actually times where I thought, 'Do people even remember us? Are people gonna be interested in hearing what we put out next?'And, you know, there were times I felt like, 'Are there going to be people out there waiting for this record?'. So we kind of live in a bubble, in a sense. We're very closed off to that whole world of thinking about those kinds of things.
My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere.
Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.
When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.
Release what no longer serves you to create a space for that which does. And yes, sometimes this even means people.
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
But overall I want to make sure people fall in love with the clothes and that they are satisfied