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“Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.”

Writing Matter Attention Practice Talent Instruments Crafts

Author:Susan Wiggs

“Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described.”

Kind Persons Care Form Process Pleasure Attention Responsibility Compassion Instruments Precise Precision

Book:Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

“Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Long Play Able Wish Attention Environment Rocks Instruments Train Guitar Musical Divides Solo Guitarist Guitar Playing Train Of Thought

Author:John Frusciante

“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.”

Mean Attention Virtue Spring Roots Instruments Excellence Compelled Manuals

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.”

Men Attention Ambition Instruments Excellent Presidential Pens

Author:John Adams