Workshops Quotes · Page 2

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I've done multiple diploma courses and have finally amalgamated it all into what is called the 'Happy Soul' workshops.

— Pooja Bedi

Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

— Debra Dean

People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?"…

— Sam Abell

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.

— Famke Janssen

This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it…

— J.R. Miller

I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.

— Michelle Obama

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of…

— Eliza Lynn Linton

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

— James Madison

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

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

— Anonymous

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they…

— Rachel Cusk

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

— John Muir

There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the…

— Sam Abell

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I…

— Mohsin Hamid

Families are the Lord's workshop on earth to help us learn and live the gospel. We come into our families with a…

— Cheryl A. Esplin

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in…

— Amanda Hocking

With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to…

— Flora Tristan

It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even…

— Mary Oliver

I first met Nelson Mandela when I was in my late 20s, in 1993. I was helping facilitate an African National Congress…

— Kumi Naidoo

We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts…

— Cheyenne Jackson

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your…

— Anonymous

Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of…

— Trevor Baylis

My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest…

— Sue Thoele

We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured…

— Eduard Buchner

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

— Harvey Mackay

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

— Jill Briscoe

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

— Jilly Cooper

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

although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands…

— Amy Sedaris

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

— Seamus Heaney

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Napoleon Hill

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

— James Broughton