#helped

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. ↗

— Ray Charles

#damn #develop #ear #good #good memory

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors. ↗

— James Denton

#because #directors #experience #got #helped

That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#approach #attention #externals #helped #improvements

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#acceptance #bring #build #children #class

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#being #being happy #different #different things #god

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#being #business #business world #competing #develop

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. ↗

— Roger Waters

#best #could #creativity #father #going

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#competition #conceive #courage #designed #embody

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#helped #make #me #mother #stronger

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#coming #concerning #contemporary #diverse #evolve