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“I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.”

People Thinking Self Running Ability Successful Focus Taught Thread Successful People Self Taught

Author:Fred L. Turner

“Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.”

Running Intellectual Thread Premium Physical Courage Personal Courage

Author:Walter Lord

“Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.”

Thinking Persons Character Stories Running Thirds Structure Complexes Various Deeper Exploration Thread Misunderstanding Parallels Third Person

Author:Juliet Marillier

“The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.”

Reason Running Painting Thread

Book:An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

“The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.”

Running School Dies Literature Class Century Thread Twentieth Century Snobbery Tweed Sappers

Author:Alan Bennett

“Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.”

Wells Kind Stories Running Order Asking Photograph Witness Thread Asking Questions Bearing Witness Ephemera

Author:Jim Goldberg

“If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity.”

Ifs Looks Problem Government Running Cases Activity Red Areas Crisis Our Society Crucial Thread Uniting Red Thread

Book:For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

“This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.”

Art Running Process Blood Art Is Patterns Finished Breasts Goods Suspects Thread Fabric Feathers Artistry Bolts Weaving Crimson

Author:Katherine Paterson

“And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.”

Littles Whole Home Running Civilization Gold Golden Little Things Sunlight Thread Fabric Garments Housework Gleam

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Like warp and woof all destinies Are woven fast, Linked in sympathy like the keys Of an organ vast. Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar; Break but one Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar Through all will run.”

Running Break Destiny Keys Thousand Organs Thread Mars Linked Woven Jars Pluck Warp

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Running Religion Values Culture Religious Lines Common Share Morality Prove Claims Supreme Thread Humanistic Common Threads

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.”

People Government Running Expectations Ill Tone Branches Visible Thread Presidency Spurs Tapestry American Government

Author:Mike Pence