#practiced

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chords #concert #first #first time #get

We've practiced loving long enough, let's come at last to hate. ↗

— Georg Herwegh

#enough #hate #last #long #loving

For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius. ↗

— Pablo de Sarasate

#day #genius #hours #i #me

When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of "thuggery" practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory. ↗

— Rufus Jones

#both #both sides #done #ends #equal

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again. ↗

— Josef Albers

#basic #cases #color #continually #different

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me. ↗

— Larry Bird

#enough #i #know #me #more

What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#because #bodies #her #how #i

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#because #get #i #like #lips

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#i #instrument #practiced #singer #without