An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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~J.D Salinger (via theimpossiblecool)
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J.D. Salinger died today.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
— Pablo Picasso
Oh so you hate your job? Good news pal, there’s a support group for that, it’s called everybody, they meet at the bar.
— Drew Carey
We give new people 2 to 4 weeks of training every year. A friend of mine once asked me, ‘Jim, what if you train someone and he just leaves?’ I said, ‘Well, what if I don’t train him, and he stays?’
— Jim Koch, founder Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams)
Young boys should never be sent to bed, they always wake up a day older.
— Johnny Depp as J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland
All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
— Conan O’Brien on his final Tonight Show
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
— Peter Drucker
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
