From an E-mail with the Title, “100 Quotes from “The Secret”

“Write your script. When you see things you don’t want, don’t think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don’t wants…remove your attention from the don’t wants…and place them on the do wants.”

Pacific Northwest, Seattle Times Sunday Magazine, August 31, 2008,

“Q”, about Quincy Jones, the quintessential music man

The following is a photo caption of a 1983 photo of Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, and Steven Spielberg

“Jones, left, goes over material in the studio with Michael Jackson and Steven Spielberg. Jones had encouraged Jackson to sing rock-oriented material, which resulted in ‘Thriller’, the biggest-selling album of all time. Jones nicknamed Jackson ‘Smelly’ because whenever the music became extra funky, Jackson would say, ‘Give me some of that ‘smelly jelly.’ ’ ”

“The Newman Chronicles”, about Paul Newman in Vanity Fair magazine, September, 2008 edition

“Cool Hand Luke had just opened around the country to huge business—the Luke character played Newman to perfection, was a fierce and funny nonconformist, a rebel. The character connected with the counterculture—and with the public in general. Newman was a bigger star than ever, much to his discomfort.”

From an E-mail with the Title, “100 Quotes from “The Secret”

“Our job is not to worry about the ‘How’. The ‘How’ will show up out of the commitment and belief in the ‘what’.”

From an E-mail with the Title, “100 Quotes from “The Secret”

“The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.”

Pacific Northwest, Seattle Times Sunday Magazine, August 31, 2008,

“Q”, about Quincy Jones, the quintessential music man

“Jones’ first album after signing as an artist with Mercury Records was ‘The Birth of a Band!’—recorded in 1959 (he was 26). When Count Basie heard the nucleus of this band in Eurpoe, he said, ‘What are you trying to do, put me out of business?’ ”

“The Newman Chronicles”, about Paul Newman in Vanity Fair magazine, September, 2008 edition

“…his close friend A. E. Hotchner. Hotch, as he’s known, says, ‘Paul seems happy when he’s on our rattletrap boat, Caca del Toro…’

…I asked him (Hotch) to describe Paul Newman in one word. ‘A loner. The most private man. He has a small group of loyal friends who are very protective of him. That said, Paul knows who he is and what he can do more clearly than anybody I have ever known. He’s a terrific businessman. He’s smart.’ “

From an E-mail with the Title, “100 Quotes from “The Secret”

“What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about.”

From an E-mail with the Title, “100 Quotes from “The Secret”

“You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

And allow the world as others choose to see it, exist as well.”

“Q”, about Quincy Jones, the quintessential music man

“. . . Jones was an avid reader. With the encouragement of Neil Friel, a hipster trumpeter from Tacoma, he discovered L. Rom Hubbard’s Dianetics, Wilhelm Reich’s eccentric psychological/sexual theories, Baird Spalding’s ‘The Life and Teachings of Masters of the Far East’.

‘Somehow’, says Jones, ‘God gave me a great big perspective on the world, real early.’ ”