Pastoral Resources

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

No one invited you to this business. You invited yourself.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.