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Gordon Getty Quotes

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: December 20, 1934

Topics

Business Music Style I Am I Can

I don't give a damn about trolls.

Damn Give About

I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.

Positive Great Me Encouragement Year

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

People Think Motivation Learn Need

My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like '365 Stories' out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems - like a wheel coming off their bicycle.

Family Father Time Day Simple Year

I think, for a long time, I didn't have people who understood where I was coming from. They were giving me advice on what would be good for them.

Good Time People Me Think Advice

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

Love Music Guitar Play Beatles

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

Stephen Jay Gould

Mirror Survival Look Domination

The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done!

Work Time Writing Book Copy Done

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

You Guilty Crime Commit

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Poor More Little Who Too

I actually went to circus school as a child. I think my specialty was walking on the big ball. You know the big ball you can walk on? Yes, I was quite good at it.

Good Walk School Child Think You

Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.

Life Moment Language Hold Center

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