"Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid."

-- Wynton Marsalis

#Swings Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Balance Quotes

“Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them... they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.”
“My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.”
“See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.”

Source : 1612 The White Devil, act 2, sc.1.
“The heart is what matters most of all”
“We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.”

Source : "Gold Medalist Bryan Clay Goes Beyond Reason for Games". Interview with Moira Lawler, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2012.
“Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.”

Source : "Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers" by Arthur Wesley Dow, Boston, 1899.
“I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.”
“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”

Source : Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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