Jerry Gillies Quotes

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

I can't get no satisfaction.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

If things aren't going well there's always going to be pressure that comes with it.

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

Understand that a problem is only a problem if you choose to view it as a problem (vs. an opportunity).

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

There is no problem so bad that you cannot make it worse

A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.