Improvisor Quotes

#1. The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

Barry Finnerty

#2. Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Soldier, there is a war between the mind
And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
For that the poet is always in the sun,
Patches the moon together in his room
To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
Up down. It is a war that never ends.

Wallace Stevens

#4. Life just happens. It's what you're believing about life that makes you suffer.

Byron Katie

#5. I think of him in certain lights, dawn, late afternoon,...

Carol Ann Duffy

#6. You know it has to do with Kelley and drugs, and me ... and there's like, what is it? I didn't read it. That's my thing. That's what I do, I don't read things if I don't think they're going to be good. I don't even look at the pictures.

Kim Deal

#7. Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#8. It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Anya Seton

#9. To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.

Reba McEntire

#10. I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Ayelet Waldman

#11. We must lift ourselves up, dust ourselfs off and begin the work of remaking America.

Barack Obama

#12. You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

Julian Fellowes

#13. To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. My second thought was to fire a gunshot, but the last time I did that his security robots jumped me. It only takes one cavity search by a robot to convince you that's an experience you don't want to have twice. This called for a more subtle approach.

John Zakour

#15. Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Martha Gellhorn