#read

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. ↗

— Allen Tate

#apart #knower #knowing #manner #neither

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#even #fall #grace #harm #inclined

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#compromises #i #ready #work

I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#believe #destiny #happen #i #i believe

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#day #even #every #get #going

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#everywhere #giving #go #got #hearts

The entire fruit is already present in the seed. ↗

— Tertullian

#entire #fruit #present #seed

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#quote #reader #well #wise #wisely

Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men! ↗

— Arturo Toscanini

#demands #doing #like #married #married men