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Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
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If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.
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When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I understood was my father. Turns out he wasn't. He was my mother's first husband.
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I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.
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Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.
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I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people.
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Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.
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Walk down Forest Ave to Joey's Pizza like we used to do after performances, which doesn't exist anymore. We had a sense of community [in the school band].
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The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.
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We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us
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I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
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Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.
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[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.
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I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.
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I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.
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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
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When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.
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Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.
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