After first arriving in New York, Charlie Parker took a job as a dishwasher at Jimmy's Chicken Shack, where _________ played the
piano nightly. Listening to his astonishing harmonic restructuring, virtuoso phrasing, and breakneck tempos every night for three months, Charlie Parker challenged himself to adopt these qualities into his playing, and he continued to practice tirelessly.
"aim small, miss small", meaning that if you aim at a man and miss, you miss the man, while if you aim at a button (for instance) and miss, you still hit the man.