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
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Give yourself another chance to make your dream a reality. Don't allow a delay to become a denial. Raise the bar on yourself, increase your determination, and explode your drive. You will fail your way to success. Everything you experience can be used to grow through...not just to go through. Make your dream happen! You deserve!
The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative inner conversation that's causing you to play small. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, possibilities and solutions that can move you forward. Tap into your creativity and determination and stay busy. Stay focused.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
It's important to me that money not be important to me.
Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
People couldn't get down here. They couldn't find it, so they'd go a different way and go somewhere else.
Somebody's going to get hurt because of it,
Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.
Sometimes you've got to believe in someone else's belief in you until your belief kicks in.
Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.