Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

It's so easy to practice out of context. For example, if you're learning a scale, you take that scale and you sit in your room and you go up and down the fretboard, over and over. You've gotta do that, because you need to get that scale working. But you have to keep in mind that that's not the finished product. That's the starting point. ”

As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist. ”

Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar. ”

Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing. ”

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love. ”

When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting. ”

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid. ”

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it. ”

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. ”

The human capital of most macroeconomists, heavily invested in demand management, was wiped out by the policy failures of the 1970s. ”