"Every â€˜mistakeâ€™ is an opportunity in jazz."

-- Stefon Harris

#Mistake Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.”
“Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.”

Source : "Opus Tertium" by Roger Bacon, (p. 70), (c. 1267).
“One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.”
“The church is in the hope business.”
“When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.”
“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”
“The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made.... He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”

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