The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much. - Mariah Carey
The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are so amazing. - Mariah Carey
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. - Whitney Houston
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
Give other peoples opinions their right significance. Take advice if it is constructive, and learn from it. But do not build your life based around the opinions of others. Trust yourself and trust your choices. - Denzel Washington
The chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have. That’s what’s going to define you. - Denzel Washington
When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going. - Denzel Washington
Don’t take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you – be nice to them. Don’t sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first. - Earl Nightingale
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. - Earl Nightingale
Others treat us as we treat them. They react to us. They only give us back a reflection of our own attitude. - Earl Nightingale
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be – whether they will admit that or not. - Earl Nightingale
I have found that the people in South Africa are fabulous. Thy are receptive and value fulfilling their lives. They are highly spirited and have dreams and desires to serve. I have learned how resourceful and efficient many people are able to live and how creative they can be and how much love they have for the families and extended loved ones. I love the spirit of South Africans.
Sometimes, the people who stand in the way and create obstacles are actually helping the most because they confront you and force you to come up with your best, enabling you to become a greater achiever.
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