Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon. -- Nat Wolff

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ― Seneca

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You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. -- Michael Dell

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance ― E.E. Cummings

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ― William Faulkner

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You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

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One is not born a woman, but becomes one. - Simone de Beauvoir

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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. ― Napoleon Hill

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. — Simone de Beauvoir

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Boss up and change your life / You can have it all, no sacrifice — Lizzo

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