I don't like to think that I'm on a treadmill of album, tour, promotion and all that.
The structure of my life has changed a little. But we no longer have the time that we had, to be with family. Sometimes you can't even spend any time with friends because you are working so hard. You're either on tour or on promotion or suddenly we're taping the soap opera.
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that. ' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects.
I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.
When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.
Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.
It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
If you look at the expenses of a great pharmaceutical company, they pay between about 10 to 15 percent of their expenses for research, but they use 30 to 40 percent of their incomes for marketing and promotion. It is not completely wrong that they spend so much, but it is not correct to say that there is a direct connection between the price of drugs and the cost of research. It could be more between the cost of marketing and the cost of the drugs.
We feel pretty comfortable making music but beyond that there have been other things to take into account, including promotion, marketing, airplay.
Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten up in a relationship. She has to now fear every other woman because every woman represents a threat to her.
With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.
There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.
Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon. com has done with books.
The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.
Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.
I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.
I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.