Les Brown
Les Brown
Lester Raymond "Les" Brown, Sr. was an American clarinetist, saxophonist, big band leader and composer, best known for his nearly seven decades of work with the big band Les Brown and His Band of Renown. The Band of Renown began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils, led by Brown while he was a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth14 March 1912
CountryUnited States of America
Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
The time is 'now' to do something - don't drag your feet.
Once you have dared to dream, I believe you MUST pursue that dream. If you do not pursue your dreams they will consume you; the knowledge that you had a dream but did not pursue it is killing knowledge. Consider it absolutely necessary to go after your dreams.
It’s hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame.
If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty
Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.
Leap and grow your wings on the way down
You can't get out of life alive.
One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.
In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.
If you are not excited about your own dream, how can you expect anybody else to be?
Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.
Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death... It's possible. Even when you have no evidence to point to.... It's possible...