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“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound like a broken record, but if you are not getting better in this sport you are getting worse”

Ifs Thinking Sports Sound Records Broken Keys Skills Satisfied Get Better

Author:Kenny Florian

“Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.”

Knows Should Writing Trying Hard Stories Seems Easy Sound Know How Produce Skills Sentences Mislead Trumpets Weird Things

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washington's great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom dear Listen with a joyful ear. With equal skill, with god-like power, He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war, or guides with ease, The happier times of honest peace.”

World War Names Sound Hours Honest Trump Fame Skills Equal Ears Dear Guides Rings Ease Loud Fearful Joyful Applause Happier Times

Author:Joseph Hopkinson

“I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.”

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.”

Able Song Sound Skills Translate

Author:Ariel Pink

“Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the other musicians and that the audience enjoys. You cannot do that without first acquiring skills.”

Want Firsts Enjoy Sound Audience Skills Musician Jazz Notes Theme

Author:John Kao

“The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of how to produce it and place it so that it works in a space. The first consideration is adopting the space and having work that resonates in the space.”

Firsts Sound Space Situation Produce Materials Listening Skills Consideration Adopting

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.”

Way Mind Sound Results Quality Emotional Balance Skills Training Inner Peace Pursuit Endless Pleasant Recipes Exhaustion Benevolent Cultivating Training The Mind Emotional Balance

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?”

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Author:Isaac Newton

“Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.”

“Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?” I asked Dad, trying to sound torn over the decision. “Yes, list that. And don’t forget to write that you can eat an entire meal in under five minutes,” he replied. I laughed. It was true; I did tend to inhale my food. “Oh, the both of you! Why don’t you just write down that you’re an absolute heathen!” My mother went storming from the room.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mother Sound Sleep Ability Decision Forget Rooms Five Minutes Special Dad Skills Absolutes Lists Meals Laughed Torn Five Minutes Inhale Heathen

Author:Kiera Cass

“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.”

Source: Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success