Kirchen Quotes & Sayings

You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier. — Pat Summitt

I'm not fighting restraints or worrying about pleasing everyone. I've been able to carve my own niche in the marketplace, which is pretty cool. Obviously, I'm just blessed to be able to tour the country and make a living to support my family at the same time. — Bill Kirchen

The beginning of it starts at the end — Tom Waits

I actually enjoy being on my own, because it allows me to do what I do. — Bill Kirchen

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect. — Willa Cather

Listen more to the other players on the bandstand than you do to yourself. — Bill Kirchen

Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play. — Bill Kirchen

Be thou an example. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things. — Bill Kirchen

In these and other respects a discussion of puzzles and rules illuminates the nature of normal scientific practice. Yet, in another way, that illumination may be significantly misleading. Though there obviously are rules to which all the practitioners of a scientific specialty adhere at a given time, those rules may not by themselves specify all that the practice of those specialists has in common. — Thomas S. Kuhn