C.A.Keith Quotes

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

You can't get there alone. In fact, you can't get very far at all.

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs -- each with our own unique brand.

At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.

People do business with people they know and like

We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

Start finding future clients before you have anything to sell them. Get to know these people as friends, not potential customers.

With the mailorder, I wake up in the morning, I check my e-mail, process the orders, and then I just print everything out. And then for the rest of the day it's actually sitting with paper.

It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

I don't want to rewrite history.

I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?

I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more.

I rarely assess live shows after I play them.

I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware.

Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have.

I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.

I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrète, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

Worship should not be primarily about the worship leader up front, but about the worship leader serving as a conduit to allow the family of God to sing together to their Creator.

We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

I much prefer the modern world.

Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.

Let's build a battery plant here.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

You can sort of trick people into being really good. Even if they didn't know anything.

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

We determine our Destination by our priorities.

This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.

The IMPP work was already very important. The recent AOL action might reinforce public perception that a standard is needed, but I think the public already realized this.

I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins

We do not believe in order to be regenerated; we must be regenerated in order that we might believe.