“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.” WritingMatterAttentionPracticeTalentInstrumentsCrafts Author:Susan Wiggs
“If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!” PeopleIfsTurnsHalfPracticeStudyTvsInstruments Author:Philippe Kahn
“It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid.” PeopleFirstsUsedPracticeCarWindowPaidInstrumentsHorribleSummertimeFiddleBanjos Author:Steve Martin
“In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.” MayUseFacesLyingFatherWhitePracticeHistoryMinutesHairGoldInstrumentsWineVariousCreatorWarmBreadLuxuryColourSilverArticlesBathsBeardPillowGarmentsPiousRoman EmpireIndignationCensureShavingVasesSalutationsWhite Bread Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.” ImportantWarNationsPeacePracticePolicyDeterminationInstrumentsSentimentsAggressionConsentNegotiationTreatiesRefrainFourteenCondemningRecourse Author:Calvin Coolidge
“I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly.” WorldWantNeedsYearsLittlesTwoBookDifferentCountryHardPlayRememberLanguageSleepPracticeWeekYouthSixAmbitionMajorsMy FriendsInstrumentsAthleteTwo ThingsBeing The BestSeventiesSurgeonsGreat Athlete Author:Diana Nyad
“At age ten I switched to guitar, and I've loved the instrument ever since. And I love to practice. I just do. I just love guitar. It still brings a smile to my face!” StillsAgeFacesPracticeTenInstrumentsGuitar Author:Michael Angelo Batio
“I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.” ChildrenHelpingViewsAttitudePracticeTeacherTheoryGeniusInstrumentsParksMy AttitudeAbnormalUntalented Book:Memoirs Source: Memoirs