George Shearing Quotes

Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

George Shearing

• Improvisation
• Disciplined
• Retention

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• A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Person
  • Will
  • Disciplined

• Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Writing
  • Audience
  • Improvisation

• Composing is improvisation slowed down.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Music
  • Jazz
  • Improvisation

• Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• They are probably one of the most disciplined teams we will play this year. They beat somebody 22-20 this year. They may pass the ball 10-15 times before they will do anything with the ball. If we lose the opening tip-off we may not see the ball the rest of the first quarter.

  

  Don Johnson
  • May
  • Play
  • Rest

• It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Want
  • Improvisation
  • Theme

• Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Disciplined
  • Raw

• The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Authority
  • Improvisation
  • Jumping

• The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Instrument
  • Comfort Zone
  • Improvisation

• All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Words
  • Actors
  • Conversation

• Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Spring
  • Songs
  • Improvisation

• Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Survival
  • DNA
  • Disciplined

• I love improvisation.

  

  Nora Dunn
  • Improvisation

• And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Grandmother

• A ball is like a very disciplined child. It does exactly what it is told to do. Great information, great direction and great results. Inadequate information leads to inadequate results.

  

  Ed Palubinskas
  • Child
  • Information
  • Results

• When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wife used to call me Captain Von Trapp from 'The Sound of Music.' I tended to be a little more authoritarian. I had been a very disciplined child myself, so I made the mistake of thinking one size fits all.

  

  Michael Gross
  • Music
  • Family
  • Mistake

• I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Real
  • Song
  • Kind

• In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

  

  Miles Davis
  • Mistake
  • Improvisation

• I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • Work
  • Sleep

• I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Worst

• I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Different
  • Imagination
  • Preparation

• When I finished with LSE, Laski, of his own, gave me a letter of introduction for Panditji. On reaching Delhi I sought an appointment with the PM. I suppose, because I was an Indian student returning home from London, I was given a time-slot. It was here in Parliament House that he met me. We talked for a few minutes about London and things like that and I could soon see that it was time for me to leave. So I said goodbye and as I left the room I handed over the letter from Laski, and stepped out into the great circular corridor outside. When I was half way round, I heard the sound of someone clapping from the direction I had just come. I turned to see Panditji (Nehru) beckoning me to come back. He had opened the letter as I left his room and read it. [Nehru asked:] "Why didn't you give this to me earlier?" [and I replied:] "Well, sir, I am sorry. I thought it would be enough if I just handed it over while leaving." After a few more questions, he asked me to see him again and very soon I found myself entering the Indian Foreign Service.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Letter
  • Indian
  • Introduction

• Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

  

  George Shearing
  • Improvisation
  • Disciplined
  • Retention