Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces.
Jon Gordon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Businessperson
Consultant
Writer
Produces
Produce
Process
Love
More quotes by Jon Gordon
You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player
Jon Gordon
Love is the answer for the team's success.
Jon Gordon
All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.
Jon Gordon
No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.
Jon Gordon
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].
Jon Gordon
We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us
Jon Gordon
Hearing Phil [wood] a lot, those few years especially when I was going to hear music and Tom Harrell was in the band. Man that was incredible. Hearing Tom at that period, and hearing Phil in that period, and also [Charles] McPherson. Those three guys were very impactful. Very inspiring to me at the time.
Jon Gordon
When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Jon Gordon
Larry [ Laurenzano] said to me one day near the end of junior high, Jon, are you Jewish? I said, No. And he said, Well neither am I. I'm not sure of Caesar DiMauro, but he teaches at the JCC and I got you a scholarship there.
Jon Gordon
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.
Jon Gordon
Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.
Jon Gordon
I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.
Jon Gordon
Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.
Jon Gordon
It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the time and you want to learn about it and you want to be around the people who do it, you'll find your own way.
Jon Gordon
Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.
Jon Gordon
I had made a couple of records in Europe. One as a leader, and one as a sideman before that. It was what it was. I started to work with Maria Schneider around that period and some other people, I started to get called to sub at the Vanguard in my mid-20s.
Jon Gordon
Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.
Jon Gordon
I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].
Jon Gordon
I never got to play with Art [ Blakey], but he was kind and spoke to me a number of times. He said, You know, the people who are working 40 hours a week. Those are the ones who are really paying dues. Sitting at a desk doing the same thing every day. We're really blessed to do what we do.
Jon Gordon
Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
Jon Gordon