#groundwork

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#been #both #christianity #commitment #conflict

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. ↗

— Amy Ray

#being #career #country #create #front

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#audience #did #electronic #electronic media #europe

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#engages #groundwork #heart #lessons #most

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats. ↗

— David Axelrod

#better future #class #cooperation #creation #democrats

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#based #bonding #brotherhood #common #cooperation

Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#before #career #college #college level #decided

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#experiences #exposed #groundwork #life #often

The groundwork of all happiness is health. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#groundwork #happiness #health