#improv

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#chance #could #course #dozens #easily

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching. ↗

— Keith Hernandez

#bench #improve #pitching #relief #you

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#admit #best #get #improving #innovate

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#talent

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#basis #chef #cuisine #exciting #go

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#conquest #convinced #could #improve #material

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#building #category #destroyers #drags #human

Searching for a mentor is similar to searching for a spouse: you two need to share common values, concerns, experiences, communication style, and, of course, have time to invest into meaningful conversations with one another. ↗

— Anna Stevens

#mentors #mentorship #success-self-improvement #communication

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#best #best way #bruce #bruce lee #clear

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#decades #forgot #improve #lake #little