#ski

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barely #child #himself #into #language

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#could #made #men #people #subjected

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#command #had #highly #scientists #skilled

There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.' ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#certain actors #guy #movie #skilled #think

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. ↗

— John Corbett

#being #different #done #fat #good

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#asking #concept #guard #like #live

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#anyone #asking #else #fame #famous

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#bring #cinema #even #eyes #goosebumps

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#boy #first #first kiss #his #i

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