Our alliance with AARP provides valuable insights into the critical 50- plus consumer segment. For more than two decades, The Home Depot… — Robert Nardelli Copy Share Image
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The benefit of personal growth and self-discovery is that we become better human beings with the strength to endure and carry on,… — Michael James Copy Share Image
I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
There are things I don't like, like sitting at the head of the class. It makes me uncomfortable. I'll do it in… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
India has probably lost its position to China as the world's workshop. At the same time it has the power to be… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Lately I feel being political is also about the company I keep and the ideas I put forward. When I do a… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they… — Hans Matheson Copy Share Image
It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher,… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
You were spying on us?" "It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I was a sound engineer, and all of these gurus and shamans would come, and I would record the workshops they were… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things.… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
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