Angelo Donghia quotes

“Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.”
-- Angelo Donghia

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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”

Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"

“Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.”

“I feel betrayed by own mother.”

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

“I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 74), 1985.

“Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.”

“Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013

“Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.”

“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”

“The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.”

Source : Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books