Roland Gift quotes

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
-- Roland Gift

#Regret #Decision #Hindsight

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
-- Roland Gift

#Growing Up #People #Calypso

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.
-- Roland Gift

#Change #Nice #Thinking

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.
-- Roland Gift

#Light #Long #Half

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.
-- Roland Gift

#Self Worth #Wheels #Records

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
-- Roland Gift

#Feelings #Would Be #Records

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.