// T-Boy's Words to the Wise (2002) // 21.11.05
"Everybody has a great idea, but very few are successful without true focus. There's going to be a time in any business when you have some doubts. Certainly people around you are gong to doubt you. But you have to stay focused and not start over in some other field. You have to stick with what you start. That's the most basic thing: stick with your vision. Don't let other people dissuade you because you don't have instant success. Every business I've started - including clothing, advertising, film, television and records - took years to develop." - Russell Simmons
"As spirit souls, we do not take birth, nor do we die. We are not finished with the destruction of the material body. The destruction of that body has already begun. Our childhood body is now destroyed. Our youthful body is also destroyed and in the same way our present body will be destroyed. When the soul transmigrates, the gross body is lost. The gross body is made of matter and anything material will eventually be finished. That is the nature of matter. But the spirit soul is never finished." - A. C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
"The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking, so the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage: he has little competition." - Dale Carnegie
"Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself." - Anthony Trollope
"I simply can't understand anybody do anything but write, paint, compose music. I can understand their doing things as a means to those ends, but I can't see what a man is up to who is satisfied to follow a profession in the normal way." - Philip Larkin
"The problem, basically, was that I had taken too many pills. The ups now periodically mixed with the downs, because, though the later had ceased to put me effectively to sleep; they hung over me in the daytime, so that I wandered in a perpetual twilight. Un-medicated sleep was impossible, a fairy tale, some remote childhood dream. But I was running low on the downs; and though I knew I could get some more, I'd decided to cut them out for a couple of days - a good idea, in the abstract, but it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light." - Donna Tartt
"Everybody has a great idea, but very few are successful without true focus. There's going to be a time in any business when you have some doubts. Certainly people around you are gong to doubt you. But you have to stay focused and not start over in some other field. You have to stick with what you start. That's the most basic thing: stick with your vision. Don't let other people dissuade you because you don't have instant success. Every business I've started - including clothing, advertising, film, television and records - took years to develop." - Russell Simmons
"As spirit souls, we do not take birth, nor do we die. We are not finished with the destruction of the material body. The destruction of that body has already begun. Our childhood body is now destroyed. Our youthful body is also destroyed and in the same way our present body will be destroyed. When the soul transmigrates, the gross body is lost. The gross body is made of matter and anything material will eventually be finished. That is the nature of matter. But the spirit soul is never finished." - A. C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
"The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking, so the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage: he has little competition." - Dale Carnegie
"Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself." - Anthony Trollope
"I simply can't understand anybody do anything but write, paint, compose music. I can understand their doing things as a means to those ends, but I can't see what a man is up to who is satisfied to follow a profession in the normal way." - Philip Larkin
"The problem, basically, was that I had taken too many pills. The ups now periodically mixed with the downs, because, though the later had ceased to put me effectively to sleep; they hung over me in the daytime, so that I wandered in a perpetual twilight. Un-medicated sleep was impossible, a fairy tale, some remote childhood dream. But I was running low on the downs; and though I knew I could get some more, I'd decided to cut them out for a couple of days - a good idea, in the abstract, but it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light." - Donna Tartt
