Novakovich Associates Quotes & Sayings

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument. — Lester Bowie

And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy. — Robert Ludlum

While binge drinking is a significant issue, it is likely that many members of the public would be surprised by its categorisation as a mental illness, particularly at the milder end."

Public confusion caused by differing understandings of the term 'mental illness'.
Jorm AF, Reavley NJ.
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2012 May;46(5):397-9.
PMID: 22535288 — Anthony F. Jorm

The knowledge that [he] had passed a loveless, institutionalized childhood and had escaped from his origins by prodigies of pure intellect, at the cost of all other human qualities, helped one to understand him - but not to like him. — Arthur C. Clarke

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion. — Lee Bolman

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both — James Madison

I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game. — Jake Gyllenhaal

They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page. — Richard Yates

Gallimaufry of ices and trifles and toasts, supervised — Elizabeth Gilbert

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down. — Terence Blacker

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. — H.L. Mencken