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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

“Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.”

Mind Children Helping Parent Imagination Levels Teacher Taste Anxiety Ambition Intellectual Adults Resources Areas Genuine Vanity Inquiry Exploits Unfamiliar Helping Children

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.”

Memories Pleasure Animal Levels Sun Blood Taste Draws Cruelty Instant Leap Prey Marrow

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.”

Humans Jobs Levels Creativity Taste Insane Appetite Manageable

Book:Orfeo

Source: Orfeo

“But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”

Men Want Humans Heart Strong Levels Taste Weak Inequality Human Heart Servitude Depraved

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Everybody got a taste of success and everybody wants to keep elevating that to the next level.”

Want Next Levels Taste Next Level Elevating Taste Of Success

Author:Kevin Harvick

“There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.”

Kind Perfect Levels Taste Screens Exceed Immersion

Author:James Mangold

“The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.”

Spiritual Causes Levels Wonder Effects Taste Intellectual Wine Intellect Senses Surrender Quests Pearls Seekers Exquisite Cause And Effect

Book:'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

“Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.”

Mean Levels Taste Cult Acquired Taste

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.”

“It's a huge assortment that we have under our roof and I don't know, it's just managing a taste level and execution of a vision. I think our team does as incredible job at it but it takes incredible leadership and I'm only really a spark for all of that. I'm not out there at every trade show, and so having an amazing team that can keep that vision month after month and keep the assortment consistent is a huge challenge. But something I think we execute every well.”

Thinking Knows Wells Doe Shows Jobs Challenges Levels Vision Team Huge Months Taste Trade Incredibles Consistent Sparks Execution Roof

Author:Sophia Amoruso

“Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level. Turn up the bass 'til it's up in your face level.”

Faces Turns Levels Taste Your Face Rapper Bass

Author:Kanye West

“It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.”

People Way Levels Impossible Taste Intellectual Treats Dresses Assuming Educational These Days Distinguished Taste In Music

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.”

Wells Reason Faces Evil Levels Kindness Fields Taste Goodness Weakness Gains Sake Experts Loser Mediocrity Serenity Wickedness Avarice Monetary Poisonous

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.”

“Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes. And psychotic killers.”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned