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“Labels are going to tie you down with a 360 deal, they take percentages of literally every endeavor you're tied to. It's a lot of stipulations and constraints placed on you. What makes it worse is that, in terms of distributing budgets, labels aren't even giving the same amount as they used to. It totally defeats the purpose. My advice would be to get it out there on your own first which will lead you to calling the shots.”

Giving Firsts Would Be Used Purpose Term Deals Advice Amount Calling Shots Defeat Labels Budgets Ties Endeavor Tied Percentages Constraints Stipulations Calling The Shots

Author:Ashanti

“You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.”

Thinking Matter Spiritual Seeing Revolution Computer Areas Scientist No Matter What Endeavor Businessman Seekers Paradigm Congressman

Author:Marianne Williamson

“That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.”

World Trying Persons Real Voice Attention Consciousness Creative Pure Direct Pay Attention Endeavor New Things Consistently Craftsman

Author:Billy Corgan

“We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.”

Ifs Done Together Belief Community Common Share Masters Addresses Our Society Rejects Endeavor Puritan National Community Futures Together

Author:Barbara Jordan

“I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.”

Self Artist Creative Fields Destruction Celebrate Endeavor Experimentation Self Destruction

Author:Billy Corgan

“The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.”

Rewards Edges Artistic Endeavor Music Business

Author:Billy Corgan

“Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.”

Littles Steps Endeavor

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.”

Trying Firsts Wish Failing Possibility Succeed Comfortable Approach Phrases Endeavor Cycling Business Life

Author:John C. Maxwell

“My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there is much that we can learn from each other. In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.”

World Facts Effort Essentials Behavior Intellectual Thirds Practicals Department Endeavor Initiative Considering Colleagues Third World Public Health Michigan Health Education

Author:Ruth Simmons

“I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.”

Said Inspired Endeavor Ruined Hail Future Endeavors

Author:David Krumholtz

“In most cases, negative comments from others are their own fears or insecurity being projected onto you. If you allow them to, these doubts will seep in and throw you off your path. It is important to have positivity around you during this time. Only share your dream with people that you know will support your endeavors.”

People Ifs Knows Life Important Dream Cases Support Path Doubt Share Negative Positivity Your Dreams Insecurity Endeavor Comment Negative Comments

Author:Allison Maslan

“The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can almost always control how your day starts and ends. I have routines for both.”

World Ends Shows Difficult Class Middle Keys Becoming Performances Endeavor World Class

Book:The Compound Effect

Source: The Compound Effect

“Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.”

Stills Reason Parent Divine Bears Settling Endeavor Investigation Divine Right

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“We were 15 minutes into it and nothing was happening; I thought, well, that's not going to work. Then all of a sudden everything clicked. I don't know how long it took us, but I would just show up at Alison's [McGhee] office. She would type and we'd just kick it back and forth. Writing is so scary for me, such a lonely endeavor, and it became a wonderful thing to show up and have somebody else go through it with me. It was actually a wonderful experience.”

Knows Writing Wells Long Shows Know How Wonderful Minutes Type Office Happenings Lonely Scary Kicks Endeavor Wonderful Things Going To Work Back And Forth Wonderful Experience

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.”

Writing Wells Said Two Book Together Fun Bits Waiting Knowing Doors Minutes Decided Patient Coffee Sat Endeavor Not Knowing Writing A Book Kate Two Friends Knowing What To Do

Author:Alison McGhee

“Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.”

Action Form Views Concern Endeavor

Author:Ernest Sosa

“I mean, props to Paris Hilton because she's doing it really well and for someone that's such a wealthy heiress she doesn't really have to lift a finger at all. She was the first example of really strong branding and is obviously a very clever businesswoman. I remember recently they printed in a British magazine, they compared her to Kim Kardashian in the sales of perfume and all of this other stuff. She still makes huge revenue from all of her different business endeavors.”

Firsts Wells Mean Stills Different Remember Strong Stuff Example Huge Fingers British Clever Magazines Lifts Paris Wealthy Endeavor Branding Perfume Revenue Printed Props Kim Very Clever Heiress

Author:Alexa Chung

“Fighting in cities is a totally different endeavor than obviously fighting out in the open.”

Different Fighting Cities Endeavor

Author:David Petraeus

“I'm passionate about capturing amazing snowboarding action. I get so much out of the artistic endeavor of even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment, using specialist cameras to showcase how fun and dynamic snowboarding is. That's what I live for.”

Action Fun Environment Shots Cameras Passionate Artistic Endeavor Specialists Snowboarding Pristine Showcase

Author:Travis Rice

“Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff [in Mother Jones], as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.”

Years Past Mother Courses Audience Huge Percent Gains Operations Endeavor Awards Staff Editorials Multimedia

Author:Clara Jeffery

“Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.”

Teaching Habit Creatures Bounds Endeavor Unfamiliar Creatures Of Habit

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.”

Thinking Years Humans Kind Doe Sports Deals Player Risk Concern All Kinds Endeavor Calendars High Risk

Author:Billie Jean King

“In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.”

World Facts Effort Essentials Intellectual Thirds Practicals Endeavor Considering Third World Public Health

Author:Ruth Simmons

“I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.”

Knows Feels Solitude Lonely Instance Novelists Endeavor

Author:Brit Marling

“There is no hope without endeavor.”

Endeavor No Hope

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and it's the human order. He set the example and model for Muslims for all the different endeavors. He is not only the example of the spiritual life, but he is also an example for our life in this world.”

World Humans Different Problem Spiritual Order Father Our Lives Example This World Models Warrior Endeavor Spiritual Life Rulers Muhammad Contention Human Problems

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.”

Thinking World Trying Different Humanity Understanding Common Fashion Taught Perspective Benefits Approach Empathy Endeavor Divides World History Common Humanity

Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng

“The earth has always supported me in all my endeavors. I trust it.”

Earth Endeavor

Author:Elaine Equi

“I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from labors of love, nurture, friendship, and barter to gift economies and different kinds of exchanges, not just one alternate model but a whole host of other ways in which we engage with each other and with the world that aren't financial and debt-based.”

“The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.”

Humans Sometimes Interesting Advertising Endeavor Annoying Imperfect Interesting Things

Author:Jaron Lanier

“Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.”

Film Known Hardest Endeavor Humankind

Book:Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint

Source: Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

Source: Motivation Lombardi Style

“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”

Inspirational Motivational Success Effort Teacher Honest Circumstances Achievement Determination Adversity Endeavor Persistent Do The Best Overcoming Adversity Often Is

Book:The Optimistic Life

Source: The Optimistic Life

“But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.”

Love Giving Helping Age Grace Sweet Encouragement Moved Calm Controlled Endeavor Virtuous Applause Invincible Knowledgeable Sweet Love

Author:Jose Marti

“To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.”

Feels Stories Share Endeavor Worthwhile Storyteller

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.”

Humans Goal Business Consciousness Ultimate Harmony Aim Method Advertising Impulse Aspiration Collectives Endeavor Collective Consciousness Handicrafts

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”

“The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.”

Important Easier Important Things Workers Chosen Making Money Endeavor Indispensable Employers

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.”

Ifs Trying Stories Literature Fiction Teach Teaching Perspective Realization Endeavor Carols Joyce

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.”

Motivation Effort Virtue Encouragement Praise Endeavor Self Discipline Encouraging

Author:Thomas Paine

“True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.”

Men World Doe Turns Endeavor Godliness Quaker

Book:No Cross, No Crown

Source: No Cross, No Crown

“I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.”

Thinking Believe Humans Kind Art Form Artist Humanity Higher Confusion Endeavor Elites Exalted Arts And Humanities

Author:Steven Pinker

“Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.”

Quality Enemy Careful Excellent Endeavor Avoiding Brilliant Ideas Good Quality Imitating

Author:Plutarch

“Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.”

Artist Effects Produce Elements Tricks Artistic Excellent Endeavor Bullets Superficial Employed Initials Arrows Brackets Ornamentation

Author:Paul Rand

“Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.”

Men Inspirational Should Age Funny Understanding Advice Fairs Old Man Endeavor Old People Elders Senior Citizen

Author:George Santayana

“Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.”

Humans Character Sex Highest Capable Endeavor Fertilization

Book:Essays in Aesthetics

Source: Essays in Aesthetics

“Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.”

Children Art Creative Endeavor Raising Children

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.”

Thinking Years Shows Voice Acting Years Ago Performances Tales Producers Endeavor Episodes Rabbits Roger Voice Over Osmosis

Author:Joel Silver

“All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.”

Ifs Long Art Enough Lasts Form Sports Horse Familiar Endeavor Riding Lifelong Pastures Equestrian

Author:Jane Smiley

“Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.”

Passion Peace Attitude Creativity Creative Optimism Photographer Positive Attitude Endeavor Great Passion

Book:W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes

Source: W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes

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