#ear

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#just #learn #make #pleasure #reading

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#came #college #come #come and go #cousin

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#fours #goes #life #nearly #threes

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#carry #combat #country #field #fight

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#early #even #go #i #kids

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#got #head #i #know #me

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player. ↗

— Guy Clark

#chris #down #ear #engineer #fiddle

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#athletes #beaten #been #could #different

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#carefully #everything #first #first of all #good

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you. ↗

— Levon Helm

#energy #give #good #good heart #heart