#kills

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#arts #arts education #chances #demonstrated #education

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. ↗

— Sean Connery

#faith #fear #god #kills #laughter

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#average #challenges #fairly #flow #higher

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that. ↗

— Charles S. Dutton

#anything #because #character #could #great

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#about #arts #because #business #degrees

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain. ↗

— Shaun White

#brain #games #i #interactive #learned

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#attack #criminals #family #get #i

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#agree #also #debate #discussion #fit

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#both #communication #communication skills #did #education