#improv

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#get #i #imperfect #improvising #jazz

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#extraneous #get #immensely #important #improved

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. ↗

— Steve Allen

#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes. ↗

— Mose Allison

#every night #goes #good #good job #i

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#answer #bloggers #body #busy #discourse

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#ghana #humanity #improving #man #quality

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#after #clinton #clinton administration #committee #designs

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#motivation #success-self-improvement #the-win #motivational

Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us – to work harder or realize another purpose/talent. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#motivational #success-self-improvement #work-ethic #motivational

It sounds like a lot when you summarize it, but I don't do all of it every day. If you want to know the truth, most days I feel like I'm miserably behind and only doing about half of what I should be doing. But when you look back you can see that you're building something. I think people who say 'Don't look back' are crazy. I wouldn't survive if I weren't looking back and patting myself on the back all the time for making it this far. ↗

— Charity Shumway

#self-awareness #self-improvement #self-motivation #success #success-self-improvement