Irvin Mayfield quote: "A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart."

It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet ...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I don't see myself only as a member of the New Orleans community. I see myself as a part of the ...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classi...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its ince...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and bei...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the m...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is someth...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to ...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I think there's no greater healing power than music.
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, ...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic t...
IRVIN MAYFIELD

Everything is only all right when we're onstage.
IRVIN MAYFIELD SR

This is something we're not going to be able to heal from, as a city, for a long time.
IRVIN MAYFIELD SR

Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to ke...
HAROLD MAYFIELD

He races to win, ... He's been a great addition to our team this year. Kenny [Francis, the team dire...
JEREMY MAYFIELD

Most of (the latest computer projections on the storm's path) are keeping Debby in a more southerly ...
MAX MAYFIELD

Every day around here is like Russian roulette.
JEREMY MAYFIELD

I think we might see some changes, maybe expanding the number of cars in the Chase, ... but not that...
JEREMY MAYFIELD

You hear stuff at the end of the race when you're leading and you're going to have a chance to win,
JEREMY MAYFIELD

Let's go! Let's go!
JEREMY MAYFIELD

It's going to be a long couple of days here for the Yucatan Peninsula.
MAX MAYFIELD

It's going to be a long couple of days here for the Yucatan Peninsula,
MAX MAYFIELD

I just don't see any reason why this will not become a very, very powerful hurricane before it's all...
MAX MAYFIELD

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s...
MAX MAYFIELD

We like to tell people, 'flee the water and hide from the wind,'
MAX MAYFIELD

We want to make sure everyone in the Florida Keys understands the seriousness of the situation. We w...
MAX MAYFIELD

Don't just focus on the eye of the hurricane,
MAX MAYFIELD

We've looked at it before and probably will be looking at it in the future. Technology makes it some...
BARBARA MAYFIELD

If a child isn't consistently fed meals, they may not trust an adult to put a meal on the table when...
BARBARA MAYFIELD

If you graze all day, you're not as likely to ever fill up or ever get hungry, so your biological sa...
BARBARA MAYFIELD

Everybody is worried about these folks in temporary housing.
MAX MAYFIELD

Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.
CURTIS MAYFIELD

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.
CURTIS MAYFIELD

Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.
CURTIS MAYFIELD

Even a Category 2 or a Category 1 hurricane hitting the Florida Keys or the southwest coast of Flori...
MAX MAYFIELD

Do you think we're going to be able to tell if it's going to clip the Chesapeake Bay or crash into C...
MAX MAYFIELD

We knew if it went caution free we had a shot to win the race. My hats off to these guys, they put t...
JEREMY MAYFIELD

We knew if it went caution free we had a shot to win the race, ... My hats off to these guys, they p...
JEREMY MAYFIELD

We've done such a good job of communicating the dangers of winds and storm surge that accompany hurr...
MAX MAYFIELD

If it goes through the Yucatan Channel, there won't be much to weaken it,
MAX MAYFIELD

Our sport's bigger than two teams. Besides, Jeff and Dale would want to earn their way into the Chas...
JEREMY MAYFIELD

If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.
CURTIS MAYFIELD

Most of (the latest computer projections on the storm's path) are keeping Debby in a more southerly ...
MAX MAYFIELD

We were briefing them way before landfall. It's not like this was a surprise. We had in the advisori...
MAX MAYFIELD

We were briefing them way before landfall, ... It's not like this was a surprise. We had in the advi...
MAX MAYFIELD

For a kid's album, that's astonishing.
GEOFF MAYFIELD

Last year, I said this is going to be a season to tell our grandchildren about, but this one was wor...
MAX MAYFIELD

This is one to tell the grandchildren about. I've been here 32 years at the National Hurricane Cente...
MAX MAYFIELD

The good thing about Bristol is some bad stuff can happen but you're not at an aero track where if y...
JEREMY MAYFIELD

What happened with Ivan was almost unheard of.
MAX MAYFIELD

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress...
CURTIS MAYFIELD

I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There's a lot of good i...
CURTIS MAYFIELD

It's impossible to compete on price with the loss leaders at department stores or electronic stores....
GEOFF MAYFIELD

The early adopters are in. We'll have to wait to see what it takes to make (digital downloads) a bro...
GEOFF MAYFIELD

The early adopters are in, ... We'll have to wait to see what it takes to make (digital downloads) a...
GEOFF MAYFIELD

Bottom line: It was a down year.
GEOFF MAYFIELD

By injecting the digital sales into the Top 100 we immediately saw a greater variety of music, espec...
GEOFF MAYFIELD

Steve Martin exploded through 'Saturday Night Live,' ... What you have now is Comedy Central, a read...
GEOFF MAYFIELD

The Internet is also a helpful promotional vehicle for selling physical albums. It reinforces for pe...
GEOFF MAYFIELD

The CD was supposed to be gone by now. But I suspect people are going to be buying CDs for a while y...
GEOFF MAYFIELD

I know at least two major distributors think the gap will get wider before the end of the year. Ther...
GEOFF MAYFIELD

They don't have the money to promote themselves. They've asked for our help in marketing.
LARRY MAYFIELD

It's unfortunate that someone wants to play games with anyone, we just hope that the police can get ...
LARRY MAYFIELD

It's time to step up and make a commitment. There's so much at stake. So many possibilities. They're...
LARRY MAYFIELD

They're nurturing new fans with bluegrass in the schools. But that's a slow process. We've got to th...
LARRY MAYFIELD

The vice president maintains an active schedule which requires regular travel throughout the United ...
JENNIFER MAYFIELD

The vice president stuck to his schedule.
JENNIFER MAYFIELD

Congressman Tom DeLay has been an exceptional leader on Capitol Hill and Vice President Cheney looks...
JENNIFER MAYFIELD

The vice president left the hospital at 10 a.m. He will work from home tomorrow. He is doing well.
JENNIFER MAYFIELD

By the time this gets here, I could be retired.
MAX MAYFIELD

We had well over a thousand lives lost in Katrina. If Wilma, you know, comes into the US, to the Flo...
MAX MAYFIELD

We like to tell people, 'Flee the water and hide from the wind,' ... We need to make sure the whole ...
MAX MAYFIELD

Everything we see says (the season) is going to remain very active.
MAX MAYFIELD

We're changing the way people work. It's fostering a culture of working more collaboratively, sharin...
ROSS MAYFIELD

When the defense picked up, then our offense got involved too. We knew what we had to do.
RASHONDA MAYFIELD

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, '...
IRVIN KERSHNER

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
IRVIN KERSHNER

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the ne...
IRVIN KERSHNER

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
IRVIN KERSHNER

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feeli...
IRVIN KERSHNER

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn'...
IRVIN KERSHNER

Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a perso...
MONTE IRVIN

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
IRVIN KERSHNER

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected m...
IRVIN KERSHNER

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always to...
MONTE IRVIN

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories wit...
MICHAEL IRVIN

My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome....
MICHAEL IRVIN

Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than whe...
MONTE IRVIN

I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a p...
MONTE IRVIN

Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie ...
MONTE IRVIN

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restauran...
MONTE IRVIN

I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the C...
MICHAEL IRVIN

For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new ...
MONTE IRVIN

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? ...
MONTE IRVIN

We've got insurance. That'll help.
BOB IRVIN

Rivers, streams and lakes are measurably cleaner than they were before the Clean Water Act, but we s...
BOB IRVIN

Mr. Pombo has spent much of his career criticizing the Endangered Species Act for its failure to get...
BOB IRVIN

They're really looking for themselves right now.
BOB IRVIN

It looks empty right now.
BOB IRVIN

It just gives you something to play for. It just gives you that extra boost.
BOB IRVIN

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love th...
MICHAEL IRVIN

Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "I...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, '...
MONTE IRVIN

I am the original, ... Those are my disciples.
MICHAEL IRVIN

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.
MONTE IRVIN

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really ...
MONTE IRVIN

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Jos...
MONTE IRVIN

The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a l...
MONTE IRVIN

It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on ou...
MONTE IRVIN

Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!

Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Put your instrument into the hands of your Art and never your Art into the hands of your instrument!
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Teach we must, for we owe all that we are to all those who have been and all that we have to those w...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!

Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Do it right the first time, because "Practice makes PERMANENT!"
IRVIN KAUFFMAN

Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and h...
MONTE IRVIN

Carver did a nice job on the offensive boards early.
DEXTER IRVIN

I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way ...
MICHAEL IRVIN

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me....
MICHAEL IRVIN

I said it to Drew in my brash, young, ignorant way, I don't know who it is know, but I know who will...
MICHAEL IRVIN

I'm surprised the New England Patriots didn't take the decision out of his hands. As soon as this th...
MICHAEL IRVIN

I am not a player anymore.
MICHAEL IRVIN

Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man.
MICHAEL IRVIN

There's no existing scenario that has any time frame connected to it.
DAN IRVIN

In a few days they are on the walls of the recipients, mementos of a once-in-a-lifetime visit to the...
IRVIN MOLOTSKY

Did you see that touchdown dance he did? I stood up and tried to do it while he was doing it.
MICHAEL IRVIN

I thought Jessica and Lauren did an outstanding job defensively on Wallace.
DEXTER IRVIN

We're going to maybe schedule more games in Idaho for Cora. She stepped in and did a nice job.
DEXTER IRVIN

I think we just assumed that Snow wasn't going to come out and play as hard as they did. By halftime...
DEXTER IRVIN

I was proud of the way our girls got out there at the beginning of the game. They really came out wi...
DEXTER IRVIN

It wasn't a matter of effort. We have to win once in a while to keep their enthusiasm going. Tomorro...
DEXTER IRVIN

We're looking forward to another shot at CSI.
DEXTER IRVIN

I thought Janelle played a good game and we got production from people we hadn't gotten much from be...
DEXTER IRVIN

Our execution was good and we did some other things well.
DEXTER IRVIN

Obviously we've got some work to do. We make our free throws, we win by 10.
DEXTER IRVIN

I think we all sat in our hotel rooms (after the semifinal) and sulked. Once we got in the locker ro...
CORRY IRVIN

I thought it was better for us not to give them a chance. I just didn't think we needed to play defe...
CORRY IRVIN

It was one of our goals, to start out strong and start quick.
CORRY IRVIN

Overall, I was happy with our performance.
CORRY IRVIN

It's something we've surely got our eyes on.
DAN IRVIN

To this point, they really have worked side by side.
DAN IRVIN

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I ...
MONTE IRVIN

Unfortunately, these restrictions must be mandatory because of the extreme deterioration of this wat...
JAMES IRVIN

It is needed now. It is one of the top priorities the county is putting money into.
JAMES IRVIN

We expected to see Palm Beach, Broward and Dade schools coming to the museum. But we're getting scho...
IRVIN LIPPMAN

I did not predict the full range of creativity.
IRVIN LIPPMAN

There were many museums competing for this show, so there was a bit of 'who you know' involved in ou...
IRVIN LIPPMAN

The staircase will remain as a permanent work of art.
IRVIN LIPPMAN

They have to start changing the minds of the South African fans now for the 2010 World Cup.
IRVIN KHOZA

The parties have agreed that the planning of the infrastructure will be continued.
IRVIN KHOZA

I think the mayor is comfortable right now that the city will not be bankrupt.
IRVIN KHOZA

I'm constantly amazed at the courage of young children to stand up in front of a large crowd and per...
SANDRA IRVIN

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
IRVIN S. COBB

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual sho...
IRVIN S. COBB

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
IRVIN S. COBB

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
IRVIN S. COBB

I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
IRVIN D. YALOM

I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have jus...
IRVIN D. YALOM

With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this w...
IRVIN D. YALOM

From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with...
IRVIN D. YALOM

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
IRVIN D. YALOM

During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neig...
IRVIN D. YALOM

We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations o...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique st...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the...
IRVIN D. YALOM

The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility,...
IRVIN D. YALOM

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

Fantasy like thought that no man could rain
Just let her reign
Run wild with her unafraid<...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack...
IRVIN S. COBB

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
IRVIN S. COBB

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
IRVIN S. COBB

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
IRVIN S. COBB

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
IRVIN S. COBB

I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's ve...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave e...
IRVIN D. YALOM

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
IRVIN D. YALOM

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
IRVIN D. YALOM

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work ...
IRVIN D. YALOM

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
IRVIN S. COBB

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to pro...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find desp...
IRVIN D. YALOM

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
IRVIN S. COBB

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
IRVIN D. YALOM

Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him the...
IRVIN D. YALOM

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been fo...
IRVIN D. YALOM

She was rare, few and far between
She suspected he would be as well
And the thought of two...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep

How did we ...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing ...
IRVIN D. YALOM

Humans who are victims of that freakish twist of evolution that grants self-awareness but not the re...
IRVIN D. YALOM

A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.

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