QUOTES

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

Playing four years of college, you learn a lot; you learn more about yourself than anything.

If you want to be at the highest level, then you have to really work hard every day.

At the end of the day, when you're young you think you're invincible.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Sometimes your haters are your biggest motivators.

I made quite a lot of money in commercials and I decided when I got out of school to take singing lessons so I could get into singing commercials, too.

I'm very career-minded.

Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.

Roughly speaking: objects are colourless

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.

In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

There can never be surprises in logic.

The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded