"Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is going through your mind; you're not thinking of anything. Every now and then you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?"

-- Jimmy Knepper

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Mind Quotes

“As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.”
“It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”

Source : Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.
“That grand old poem called Winter”
“Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.”
“How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.”

Source : Beth Richardson Gutcheon (1983). “Without a trace”, Dell Pub Co
“The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.”
“India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.”

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