Pat Metheny Quotes

You can never really get away from the fundamentals of anything that you're doing.

Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don't know, and I would be faking it if I attempted to step into that role.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed.

A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession of something.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

Even theories must have foundations.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love.

Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

Expert knowledge is limited knowledge