Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I'm magnetic," she whispered, half awed and half horrified. "I hope you don't start sticking to fridges and stuff," I said in… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Many or few alternatives can be at hand. A wise and skilful choice acts from a sincere effort. Solutions and results come… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face… — Kevin Sorenson Copy Share Image
I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave… — David Ehrenfeld Copy Share Image
Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun… — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner'… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
I think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I'm pleased we are going to be able to offer job opportunities to so many deserving young people. When we provide youth… — Brad Duguid Copy Share Image
My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see… — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
With the understanding that you will face tough times and amazing experiences, you must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with… — Bob Uecker Copy Share Image
Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good,… — John Kao Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the… — Nick Dear Copy Share Image
Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
