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
Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.
If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day.
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.
You may not accomplish every goal you set / no one does / but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.
You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.
You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.