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"Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not."
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"The most effective way to be self disciplined, is to submit yourself to your words."
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"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."
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"Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive."
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"The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?"
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"An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves."
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"There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward."
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"The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God."
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"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."
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"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."
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"People should not expect to eat if they did not work."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
First
"I don't think you can contrive any sound."
Sound
"When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well."
Chance
"Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place."
Creativity
"Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not."
Discipline
"I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947."
Home
"We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year."
Months
"I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children."
Age
"I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation."
Freedom
"I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing."
Business
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