6 Quotes Tagged: improve

There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.

But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Instead of seeing what was wrong with my backhand, I just started observing, and improvement seemed to happen on its own.

"To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group — a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project. This kind of critical and democratic sensibility flies in the face of any policing of borders and boundaries of "blackness", "maleness", "femaleness", or "whiteness"."