Archive for the “Inspirational and Motivatetional” Category

• After playing now for 60 years, it’s still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.~ Lee Konitz
• A melody is not merely something you can hum.~ Aaron Copland
• As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I’ll fit whatever I’m trying to say around a melody.~ Alanis Morissette
• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.~ Johannes Brahms
• Doing the instrumental thing, you’re really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.~ Michael W. Smith
• Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.~ Stephane Mallarme
• For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play it would be Brazilian.~ Herbie Mann
• From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.~ James Nasmyth
• Give — and somewhere, from out of the clouds, or from the sacred depths of human hearts, a melody divine will reach your ears, and gladden all your days upon the earth.~ George F. Burba
• Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.~ Steven Tyler
• Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we’re a heavy rock band. We’re definitely not a metal band, but we’re a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.~ Adam Rich
• I always begin to compose the melody first.~ Nobuo Uematsu
• I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.~ Ken Hensley
• I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.~ Enya
• I don’t really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won’t forget it.~ Britney Spears
• I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.~ Robert Cray
• I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody… I am old fashioned.~ Toru Takemitsu
• I really believe in melody.~ Aulis Sallinen
• I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.~ Teena Marie
• Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.~ Hans Christian Andersen
• Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.~ Gian Carlo Menotti
• Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.~ Joshua Logan
• Music is the melody whose text is the world.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
• Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.~ Burt Bacharach
• No vision and you perish; no ideal and you’re lost. Your heart must ever cherish some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, some rainbow in the sky, some melody to sing to, some service that is high.~ Harriet Du Autermont
• Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.~ C. Fitzhugh
• The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.~ Pablo Casals
• The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn’t seem like there’s anything happening like that.~ Merle Haggard
• There’s two facets to writing a song. There’s you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there’s the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.~ Nuno Bettencourt
• There’s usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.~ Stephan Jenkins
• The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance. - Love Quote
• The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn’t make it easy.~ Enya
• Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.~ Steven Bochco

• All I know is, I pass people on the street these days, and they don’t know whether to say hello or to say goodbye.~ Billy Martin
• A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. ~ Helen Rowland
• A memory lasts forever, Never does it die. True friends stay together And never said goodbye.~ Goodbye Quote
• Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~ Garrison Keillor
• Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.~  Dutch Proverb
• Every meeting is the beginning of a goodbye.~ Japanese Proverb
• Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.~ George Saunders
• If you ask me something and you don’t hear from me, I’ve dozed off, and I’m gone, so just say goodbye.~ Neal McCoy
• I hate the part of the show where we have to say goodbye to someone.~ Ant McPartlin
• Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.~ Douglas Macarthur
• Never say goodbye, say farewell.~ Author Unknown
• Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.~ R.P.T. Coffin

Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.~ Trey Parker

• So we are not saying goodbye forever, … We are saying we will see you later.~ John Cross
• The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.~ Jennie Bond
• The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.~ Jimi Hendrix
• We only part to meet again.  ~John Gay
  
• Where is the good in goodbye? ~ Meredith Willson
• Whenever women say goodbye they always hang around for a while.~ German Proverb
• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.~ Denis Diderot

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.~ Jawaharlal Nehru
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.~ Benjamin Spock
Along the way of our service to others and community, we learn that a very large side benefit is an enormous sense of personal satisfaction, personal purpose and personal worth.~ Brian O’Connell
A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity.~ Yiddish Proverb
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.~ George Bernard Shaw
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.~ Oscar Wilde
Better to satisfy the body than to tarnish the soul.~ Chinese Proverb
Enough is better than too much.~ German Proverb
Forgiveness is more satisfying than revenge.~ Arabian Proverb
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.~ Lao-Tzu
How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.~ Sue Atchley Ebaugh
I’d rather be dead than singing ”Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.~ Mick Jagger
I am easily satisfied with the very best.~ Winston Churchill
I have been the recipient of love and service, therefore I can love and serve. There is great satisfaction in service to others, in …seeing people and their conditions change.~ Clarence E. Hodges
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.~ Leigh Hunt
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.~ Norman Vincent Peale
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.~ Anne Frank
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.~ Faye Wattleton.
No nation became great by becoming rich. Neither does a man find enduring satisfaction in life by owning something — only by becoming something.~ Norman Vincent Peale
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.~ Oliver Goldsmith
One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.~ Margaret Deland
Only when the money we earn is put to work for the benefit of others does it provide true satisfaction.~ Malcolm D. Maxwell
Our greatest joy and satisfaction comes from the act of giving.~ Leo Buscaglia
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.~ Denis Waitley
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.~ Mahatma Gandhi
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.~ Linus Pauling
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.~ Thomas A. Edison
Success is a peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.~ John Wooden
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.~ William C. Menninger
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.~ Salvador Dali
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.~ Freeman Dyson
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.~ James Branch Cabell
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.~ Henry David Thoreau
To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.~ Marcus Valerius Martial
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.~ St. Theresa of Lisieux
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.~ Author Unknown
What is new is pleasing and what is old is satisfying.~ Cuban Proverb
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness — great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.~ Jim Rohn
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.~ Geroge Lorimer
You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.~ Norman Vincent Peale
You cannot satisfy the whole world and your father.~ French Proverb
You don’t satisfy your hunger by watching others work.~ Armenian Proverb

• A good rest is half the job.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
• A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.~ Marysarah Quinn
• A job worth doing is worth doing together.~ Author Unknown
• A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.~ Gloria Steinem
• As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.~ Roseanne Barr
• As soon as you have finished a job, you start appreciating the difficulties.~ Chinese Proverb
• Doing a great job and not meeting the customer’s objectives is as useless as doing a poor job within the customer’s objectives.~ Thomas Faranda
• Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.~ Author Unknown
• Get the job done.~ Don Shula
• Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.~ Winston Churchill
• I do not believe you can do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow.~ Nelson Jackson
• If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.~ Traditional Proverb
• If you don’t get a kick out of the job you’re doing you’d better hunt for another one.~ Samuel Vauclain
• If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.~ Malcolm S. Forbes
• If you have no problems at your job you don’t have a job you’ve got a hobby.~ Ronald Dunn
• If your children look up to you, you’ve made a success of life’s biggest job.~ Author Unknown
• I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.~ Danny McGoorty
• It’s not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation~ Lou Holtz
• It’s the job that’s never started takes longest to finish.~ J. R.R. Tolkien
• I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.~ Samuel Goldwyn
• My job is never work — the only time it seems like work is when I’d rather be doing something else.~ Author Unknown
• Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small; you never know where it may lead.~ Julia Morgan
• Of course God will forgive me; that’s His job.~ Heinrich Heine
• Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.~ Author Unknown
• Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.~ Eric Butterworth
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.~ Aristotle
• Professionalism: It’s not the job you do, It’s how you do the job.~ Author Unknown
• Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.~ Ronald Reagan
• The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.~ Author Unknown
• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.~ Fred Astaire
• The longer the title, the less important the job.~ George McGovern
• The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.~ Author Unknown
• There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.~ George W. Crane
• The tougher the job, the greater the reward.~ George Allen
• To be willing is only half the job.~ Armenian Proverb
• To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.~ Simone De Beauvoir
• Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.~ Madeleine Albright
• Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do.~ Henry Jacobsen
• When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.~ George Cullum
• Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.~ Jim Rohn
• to our program. It’s my job not to de-motivate them.~ Lou Holtz

• Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete… babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.~ Eda J. Le Shan

• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.~ Seneca

• Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.~ John Henry Newman

• Many peoples lives are ended in pain..But to me pain is the beginning of a new life.~ Author Unknown

• May today mark the beginning of many new joys and accomplishments… and a continuation of all of the good things that you have already achieved.~ Author Unknown

• Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.~ William Bridges

• Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.~ Ralph Blum

• The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.~ George Eliot

• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.~ Carl Bard

• What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.~ Author Unnkown

• We have it in our power to begin the world over again.~ Thomas Paine

• This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.~ Author Unknown

I love the sweet smell of dawn -
our unique daily opportunity to smell time,
to smell opportunity -
each morning being, a new beginning.
~Emme Woodhull-Bache