#skill

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities. ↗

— Liz Phair

#chance #composing #dimensions #down #essential

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills. ↗

— Tim Reid

#going #got #having #hope #just

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it. ↗

— Carl Reiner

#develop #either #fellow #funny #get

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill. ↗

— John Shirley

#i #i think #instructive #paranoia #right

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#become #facts #finding #forgotten #historians

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#around #better #change #change things #courageous

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. ↗

— John Stossel

#happiness #meaningful #our #purpose #skills

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. ↗

— Paul Di Filippo

#scifi #writing #writing-skills #science

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#achievements #career #clichés #double-standards #feminism

Some People..If you could buy them for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth…You would never have to worry about money again. ↗

— Tim Kirkland

#life-lessons #motivation #people-skills #inspirational