Ernest Sosa Quotes

Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.

Ernest Sosa

• Risk
• Tennis
• Jazz
• Adults
• Surgery
• Improvisation

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• Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Risk
  • Tennis
  • Jazz