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
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People couldn't get down here. They couldn't find it, so they'd go a different way and go somewhere else.
Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
Sometimes you've got to believe in someone else's belief in you until your belief kicks in.
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
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.
Somebody's going to get hurt because of it,
Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.
Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.