#reach

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#art #decision #ensemble #long #long time

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#both #cannot #distance #either #goods

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#catch #golden #good #great #great art

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection. ↗

— Adam Jones

#four #hard #hard time #perfection #perfectionists

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#glacier #heart #moves #pain #reaches

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#championship #coaching #during #final #five

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts. ↗

— Shirley Knight

#because #best #best time #films #many

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#because #convince #convinced #good #good quality

Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test. ↗

— David Rudisha

#climbing #every #good #i #i see

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#apologise #audiences #avoid #bad #bands