Sublime

Please protect your respect for yourself and for your most honest artistry above the fear-fueled, impossibility-filled pronouncements of people who are masters of theory yet creators of nothing.

show an interest in the lives of your customers/clients/patients every chance you get.

you must become a person that others want to be around! This is far and away the greatest success secret in existence. A man or woman who has become someone others want to be around holds the world by the tail.

I change the world around me by changing myself.

Be yourself. If your language sounds more formal than your normal speech, you have failed.

Nothing’s work unless you’d rather be doing something else.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has

“That’s amazing, man. It’s true. Nat King Cole used to always tell me: ‘Quincy, your music can be no more or no less than you are as a human being.’ ”

Nadia Boulanger always used to tell me, “Quincy, your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.”