David Sanborn Quotes

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

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• Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Boundaries

• Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Animal

• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Love
  • Force
  • Create

• What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Day

• If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Me
  • Looks

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Easily
  • Embarrass

• My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Church
  • Sometimes
  • Christmas

• We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Night
  • Islam

• Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Time
  • Home
  • Thought

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Happy
  • Film
  • Film Set

• Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Men
  • Old
  • Grow

• Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Remember
  • You

• I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.

  

  Larry Page
  • Long

• She couldn’t help wondering if that was how one made the decision to forgive or not. If letting go hurt more than accepting someone’s mistakes.

  

  Christie Craig
  • She
  • Help
  • Decision

• I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Jesus
  • I Believe
  • Sympathetic

• You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Men

• I am here because I do enjoy playing the game, ... I'm not sure I'm going to pursue playing baseball in the future. It's better for me to finish the season, be professional about it and see if I can't help this team. That's the real reason I'm here, not to prove anything.

  

  Paul Quantrill
  • Future
  • Game
  • Playing

• To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

  

  David Sanborn