“For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.” MenWritingWellsThreeStyleExerciseSpeakers Author:Ben Jonson
“There was a Socratic style of life (which the Cynics were to imitate), and the Socratic dialogue was an exercise which brought Socrates' interlocutor to put himself in question, to take care of himself, and to make his soul as beautiful and wise as possible.” SoulCareBeautifulWiseStyleExerciseTake CareDialogueSocratic Author:Pierre Hadot
“Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.” MenStyleHe ManExerciseIntellectualFacultyReunion Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
“I also don't exercise. I can't imagine exercising for two hours. Not my style.” I CanTwoHoursImagineStyleExercise Author:Selena
“The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.” GivingKindBeautifulStyleDevelopmentExerciseFingersBrilliantTechniqueAcquireConcertsArrestedPianist Author:Ayn Rand
“Harry [Styles] is like a younger brother. We do exercises together then he asks me to prepare a sandwich for the effort.” TogetherAsksEffortStyleBrotherExerciseAsk MeSandwichesYounger Brother Author:Liam Payne
“One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.” WritingCountryReasonStoriesWantedCarStyleSeriousExerciseReason WhyLatinLatin AmericaLatin AmericanComplete Freedom Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“When I was living in Mexico, I started reassessing my drawing style, and plunged into a period of doing exercises and research to develop a new way to draw. The result was a style that implies more than it shows, and so, ironically, feels more "true" to the scene I want to draw than a style that is more specific. It seems to me that the reader's imagination is able to fill in the gaps more effectively than I ever could. Plus it's a lot faster and more fun to do.” FunImaginationStyleExerciseScene Author:Jessica Abel
“Pope Francis has helped me to focus once again on the joy in my pastoral ministry. He has challenged me genuinely to believe that the Gospel is and should be the source of the church's joy. His own approachable, cheerful, and hopeful style in exercising the papacy reminds me that shepherds must exude joy or they will fail to lead anyone else to discover it.” BelieveJoyFocusFailingStyleExerciseHopefulPopeCheerful Author:Wilton Daniel Gregory
“You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.” ThinkingCultureStyleExerciseIntellectualPoint Of View Author:Robin Pecknold