Emmett Schools Quotes & Sayings

You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself. — Meredith Vieira

I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me. — Frankie Cosmos

God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind. — Peter Shepherd

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist. — Macklemore

I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears. — Kanye West

Surface beauty: blond hair, blue eyes" - she was looking at me - "is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see." - Kendra Hilferty — Alex Flinn

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very hard on my piano, and it is coming along to the point where it is taking more of the spotlight. It has been my plan to be able to make music well into my old age, and sitting down seems like a good idea. Also, I don't have to carry the piano on the road. I haven't been playing the banjo much of late because of the difficulties of travelling with so much gear. But maybe I'll bring it to Japan. It adds a different color to the musical palette. — Livingston Taylor

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path
[in Mediated Modeling page 43] — Donella H. Meadows

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning. — Kent Beck

If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes. — Sherman Alexie

I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky. — Ray Bradbury

ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love. — Hannah Storm

They are all fighting to know who we are, where we are, and what we want. — Jeff Jarvis

I just wanted things to be simple. I didn't understand why things had to be so complicated for all the grown ups. And I decided that if growing up meant things got confusing, then I would stay little forever. I would stay simple. But unfortunately everything around me did its best not to be. The world liked to be complex. It liked to twist, to distort. To bleed you dry of whatever feeling you could muster while still letting you hold on to your sanity so that you could experience heartache at its prime. I didn't know how cold the world could be when I was eleven. If I would have known ... maybe I would have packed a sweater. — A.L. Collins