"Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined."

#Practice Quotes #Band Quotes #Used Quotes

“While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.”

Source : Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.12, Penguin
“She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?”
“Market-cap based indexing will never be driven from its deserved perch as core and deserved king of the investment world. It is what we should all own in theory and it has delivered low-cost equity returns to a great mass of investors... the now and forever king-of-the-hill.”
“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
“Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.”
“It's funny because when Jason [Statham] was drowning I was filming with an iPhone. It may have been a bit insensitive but I just thought, "you know what, this was a magic moment". And I couldn't help him anyway because I didn't want to drown.”
“[My favourite are] the films of Agnes Varda, because of her sense of humor and the intimate, personal way she tells her stories. She is brave in taking creative risks, and her curiosity in others is so contagious. This brings me closer to the subjects in her films.”
“The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution of all the components needed in a software system.”

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