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Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.
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If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.
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Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.
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Love is the answer for the team's success.
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I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.
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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.
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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 think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].
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Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.
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Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.
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I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
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Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.
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When [Charlie Parker] saw the young guys, especially the ones that were scuffling... Did you eat today? And if you hadn't eaten, he'd take you and buy you some lunch.
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One time, I think it was my third lesson third or fourth lesson. Kim Parker and he picked me up at the bus station. And she just said, Phil [Wood] has been up all night. He's heartbroken. Bud Johnson died last night. And Bud Johnson, like Zoot [Sims] and Al [Cohn] had been mentors to him.
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I had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house.
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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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Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of me.
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The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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Earlier that year [1996], Ronnie Scott came to Visiones when I was playing with Maria and he hired me to come and play in his club in London, which I was gratified by. That allowed me to make some more connections.
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