I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.
If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!
If we [Blacks] always do what we’ve always done, then we will always get what we’ve always got.
Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
Travelling expands the mind rarely.
A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
If people stay in their own little bubbles, none of us will reach our full potential.
We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them.
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.
Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.
Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.
I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.
You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
