#skill

She nibbles her pencil... She's human! ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#human #humour #people-skills #friendship

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

Follow the rules until you make them. ↗

— Luke Green

#skills #truisms #writing #life

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you." He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at this picture will think of it. Because of that you've missed something important. Does that make sense?" She thought, then nodded. "All right," she said grudgingly and with just a touch of despair in her voice. "You win." Julien grunted. "Have another go, then. I shall come back and come back until you figure it out." "And you'll know?" "You'll know. I will merely get the benefit of it. ↗

— Iain Pears

#creativity #daughters #duty #expectation #fulfillment

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#skill #writing #music

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#co-operative #great #labor #means #money

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

#skills #education

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened. ↗

— Travis Barker

#does #fast #happened #hard #just

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent? ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#committed #couple #curious #fit #i

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#handle #kind #language #practice #skillfully