Workshops Quotes · Page 3

The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

— Jill Briscoe

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write…

— Andre Dubus

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops…

— Harvey Mackay

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be…

— Joseph Chamberlain

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop,…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

— James Dyson

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

— George Bernard Shaw

The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but…

— Anonymous

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able…

— John Muir

The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime…

— Debbie Ford

You always have three movies that you have to reduce into one. You have the screenplay. And then, you do a workshop…

— Louis Leterrier

What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit -…

— Patti LuPone

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school…

— Mary Oliver

Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams,…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which…

— Billy Collins

To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to…

— Van Jones

You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular…

— Josemaria Escriva

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need…

— Marcus Aurelius

I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade…

— James W. Loewen

During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most…

— Warren Farrell

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to…

— Theodora Goss

Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,…

— Monica Wood

What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would…

— Philippe Falardeau

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

— Kingsley Amis

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.

— Napoleon Hill

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've…

— Jason Mraz

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is?…

— Max Lucado

I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops…

— Enzo Ferrari

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find…

— Matthew Arnold

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students'…

— Marilyn Hacker

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.…

— Vikas Swarup

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes…

— Justin Cronin

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

— Edward Hirsch

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

— Mike Birbiglia

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

— Paul Fussell

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

— Jack Youngblood

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or…

— Kelly Link

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

— Napoleon Hill

Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

— Rupert Sheldrake