George B. Leonard Quote

What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and...
GEORGE B. LEONARD

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet. --
GEORGE B. LEONARD

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be...
GEORGE B. LEONARD

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
GEORGE B. LEONARD

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
GEORGE LEONARD

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be...
GEORGE LEONARD

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
GEORGE LEONARD

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, ...
GEORGE LEONARD

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a pa...
GEORGE LEONARD

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be...
GEORGE LEONARD

What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and...
GEORGE LEONARD

The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it i...
GEORGE LEONARD

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
GEORGE B. MERE

Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, a...
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor ...
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN

I learned long ago that conservation has no victories, that one must retain connections and remain i...
GEORGE B. SCHALLER

True prayer is something more than desire. It is no mere subjective instinct, ... no blind outreach....
GEORGE B. STEVENS

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shal...
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, a...
LEONARD ALFRED GEORGE STRONG

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the trui...
LEONARD ALFRED GEORGE STRONG

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I a...
LEONARD ALFRED GEORGE STRONG

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING

I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING

A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work ...
KAWHI LEONARD

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...
ELMORE LEONARD

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
LEONARD COHEN

At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challeng...
LEONARD COHEN

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t...
LEONARD COHEN

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
LEONARD COHEN

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
LEONARD COHEN

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass d...
LEONARD COHEN

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
LEONARD COHEN

Success is survival.
LEONARD COHEN

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. A...
LEONARD COHEN

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're p...
LEONARD COHEN

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That'...
LEONARD COHEN

There were times that I thought I was good looking.
LEONARD COHEN

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd...
LEONARD COHEN

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to ...
LEONARD COHEN

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
LEONARD COHEN

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape j...
LEONARD SLATKIN

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.
LEONARD LAUDER

That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.
LEONARD BLOOMFIELD

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won...
LYDIA LEONARD

Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual...
LEONARD SUSSKIND

During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.
LEONARD ORR

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having t...
LEONARD COHEN

Obviously, I like guys that can defend other positions. Draymond Green is doing a great job with Gol...
KAWHI LEONARD

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everythi...
LEONARD COHEN

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I'...
LEONARD NIMOY

Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also importan...
LEONARD MLODINOW

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, w...
LEONARD NIMOY

When judging a product, we rarely have exhaustive scientific data to go by. As a result, if we are t...
LEONARD MLODINOW

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
LEONARD RAVENHILL

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
LEONARD COHEN

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in ever...
LEONARD COHEN

There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language h...
LEONARD COHEN

I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do...
LEONARD COHEN

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That'...
ELMORE LEONARD

Live Long and Prosper
LEONARD NIMOY

If I meet God, I hope she's female. I'm touched by the power of women. I'm married to a feminist. An...
LEONARD NIMOY

I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once ...
LEONARD NIMOY

I AM CONVINCED

I am convinced
That if all mankind
Could only gather together LEONARD NIMOY

The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
LEONARD NIMOY

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
LEONARD NIMOY

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.
ELMORE LEONARD

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all ...
ELMORE LEONARD

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and comm...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...
LEONARD COHEN

Men give advice; God gives guidance.
LEONARD RAVENHILL

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
LEONARD BRANDWEIN

â€œThe church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that...
LEONARD RAVENHILL

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
LEONARD ORR

While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens...
LEONARD RAVENHILL

The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
LEONARD NEAL

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
STEW LEONARD

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does ...
LEONARD COHEN

I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jac...
LEONARD COHEN

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
LEONARD COHEN

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN

The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th...
LEONARD COHEN

He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no ...
LEONARD COHEN

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
LEONARD COHEN

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ...
LEONARD COHEN

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t...
LEONARD COHEN

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
LEONARD COHEN

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...
LEONARD COHEN

When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

A customer who complains is my best friend.
STEW LEONARD

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n...
STEVE LEONARD

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ...
LEONARD COHEN

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Clarity affords focus.
THOMAS LEONARD

For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.

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For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.

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