“I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.” YearsLongHas BeensGivenImaginationRaceRecordsPleasePromiseDeterminedAncestorVividProspectsI Am DeterminedVivid Imagination Author:Nikola Tesla
“Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that when you put it on, if you listen to both sides, when it's over, your perceptions have been changed and I think that our record can do that.” IfsThinkingWorldHas BeensWholeSidesCan DoRecordsChangedPerceptionAlbumsWhole WorldOver YouBoth SidesPsychedelic Author:Richard Lloyd
“I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not.” Has BeensWholeSongFunFeltBlackHoursRecordsWrittenKeysCallingGet AwayMinorsDepressingCould Have BeenWailingWallowingMost Depressing Author:Hamilton Leithauser
“Sourav Ganguly has been an excellent captain, his record speaks for himself. I found him to be a tough competitor and every Indian should feel proud of Sourav.” FeelsShouldHas BeensFoundSpeakRecordsProudToughIndianExcellentCaptainsCompetitorsGanguly Author:Nasser Hussain
“It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.” Has BeensImportantPastEasyResultsRecordsPerformancesInvestmentManagersCrucialJudgedBeing Judged Author:Warren Buffett
“Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensIdeasHardWholeFormAttentionRecordsTheoryModelsEconomicsPaidSevenInvestingTeethFinanceCorporateFairyAssetsAcademicEfficientPercentagesDescendantsObscenityPricingVolatilityTooth FairyEfficient Markets Author:Charlie Munger
“The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.” Has BeensFactsShowsAbleFacesEnemyRecordsImpossibleWrittenWeekEventsCircumstancesResurrectionDiscipleAccuracyJerusalemCrucifixionProximityFabricate Author:William Lane Craig
“Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.” IfsHas BeensWould BePastUsedHalfRecordsFiveSizeCurrentsRidiculous Author:Charlie Munger
“I counted it up once. I think I have written 45 full screenplays. Of those, maybe 15 have been shot, in some form. That's a pretty good track record, but it's not 100%. It is frustrating that, as a screenwriter, I've seen all those movies and they don't exist in the real world. They're juts inside my head and on those pages.” ThinkingWorldHas BeensRealFormRecordsWrittenPagesShotsTrackReal WorldFrustratingScreenplaysScreenwritersTrack Record Author:John August
“The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.” Has BeensCountryGovernmentFoundCasesRecordsFashionProgramPhonesTerroristCollecting Author:Rand Paul
“It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsHomeMillionsRecordsDyingClimateSevenClimate ChangeCaliforniaFuelPollutionCatastropheFossilsFossil FuelDroughtBurnt Out Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 years have.” YearsHas BeensSongGrowsAbilityCareersRecordsMinesBlessedIncrediblesComposition Author:Dionne Warwick
“Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.” YearsHas BeensMomentsRecordsSeeingPhotographyFlowExperimentsSignificanceDocumentsJournal Book:In plain sight: the photographs of Beaumont Newhall Source: In plain sight: the photographs of Beaumont Newhall
“I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.” ThinkingHumansLooksHas BeensAbleHuman BeingsRecordsJewVisibleNaziHypothetical Author:Claude Lanzmann
“I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.” PeopleYearsMayHas BeensShowsWantedRecordsJazzMusic Love Author:Brian McKnight
“Whether or not punk is the flavor of the month is not important for us. Bad Religion has been popular through many different climates. When heavy metal was popular, when new wave was popular, Bad Religion was still there underneath the mainstream selling more and more records.” Has BeensStillsImportantDifferentRecordsMonthsClimateWaveHeavySellingMetalsMainstreamPunkFlavorHeavy MetalFlavor Of The MonthSelling More Author:Greg Graffin
“It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.” YearsLooksDoeHas BeensSeemsWould BeGivenRecordsSeaSummerLowsHappeningsAverageFoolishRecoveryObservationIceRegionsTemporaryTrendsDefiniteProjectionProgressionDip Author:David Robert Whitehouse
“I would INSIST this record is in NO WAY COLD influenced. Don't get me bent though, I have been a huge fan of Cold from day one. One of the best most awesome song writers. Kelly has in OWN sound, He recorded on the POINT OF ORIGIN Record so there, of course, will be something that familiarizes the Cold sound. But Allele is much heavier, and just kind of warmer, different techniques and a different sound all together. Allele I think is more intense.” ThinkingWayKindHas BeensDifferentTogetherSongCoursesSoundRecordsFansHugeColdTechniqueIntenseBentMost Awesome Author:Wally Wood
“That was an idea of the record company, and also that was my first album after MCA and we wanted to come back with a strong album that would be noticed. If we put the vocals by very talented people and very meaningful songs, then the vocals would be a platform so that I could be noticed again. All of the MCA albums were just loaded with problems -- you know, the right musicians, the engineers. The record company would say 'You have to make music for black radio, you can't do what you have been doing with The Crusaders.' Everybody was telling me that was over, finished, done.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsHas BeensIdeasDoneProblemWould BeWantedSongStrongBlackCompanyRecordsMusicianRadioAlbumsFinishedMeaningfulPlatformsEngineersVocalLoadedRecord CompaniesVery MeanVery MeaningfulMeaningful Song Author:Joe Sample
“I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingTryingHas BeensIdeasDifferentWantedTogetherThreeGoalTermRecordsFocusGroupsBandProjectsMusicianCome UpAlbumsFortunateConsistentNew IdeasGigs Author:Dave Douglas