“Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. . . Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.” LongHardRunningArtistVoiceAcceptingTalentHard WorkBecomingSkillsPerseveranceFollowingLong RunsDistinctiveAccepting Yourself Author:David Bayles
“Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.” IfsMenImportantEnoughFatherCompanyAcceptingEffectsGoes OnSkillsAuthorityModelsFunctionRelaxRequirementsManhoodMasculinityMasculineModelingOur FatherDiploma Author:Frank Pittman
“Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.” ThinkingWorldWayMeanLevelsAcceptingClassHumilityKeysSkillsEgoSettingSettingsMy WayMultipleWay Of ThinkingTherapistsSuperbWorld ClassTechnical Skills Author:David D. Burns
“Those who have power a) understand that the world is not always a just and fair place and accept that fact, b) understand the bases and strategies for acquiring power, and c) take actions consistent with their knowledge in a skillful way. Skill at anything requires practice, and power skills are no different.” WorldWayDifferentFactsActionAcceptingPracticeSkillsFairsBasesStrategyConsistentSkillful Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” HardPoliticsWinningEnergyEasyGoalChallengesAcceptingWillingMoonSkillsDecadesOrganizeUnwillingSpace ExplorationNasaSpace TravelPresident KennedyPeaceful Revolution Author:John F. Kennedy