"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

-- Lionel Hampton

#Growing Up Quotes #Chicago Quotes #Harmony Quotes

“I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.”
“I took a wrong turn the other day. A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found the very thing Iâ€™d been searching for.”
“Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.”
“I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.”
“There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.”
“It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.34, Macmillan
“Design is the first signal of human intention.”
“This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”

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