"If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome."

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Source : "Executive Life; Learning Teamwork By Making Music" by Amy Zipkin, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2003.

J. Richard Hackman

#Thinking Quotes #Yield Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.”
“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”
“Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was there a psychological term for that? Was there a disease that involved an intense desire to die, but no will to go through with it? Couldn't talk and thoughts of suicide be considered a whole malady of their own, a special subcategory of depression in which the loss of a will to live has not quite been displaced by a determination to die?”
“It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.”
“Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?”

Source : Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”
“Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.”
“I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life. I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.”
“The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.”

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