#skills

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#hobby #passion #skills #life

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

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #skills #humor

Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time--can be exhausting. ↗

— Jane Devin

#people-skills #social #love

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#gossip #impact #influencing-skills #inspiring-quotes #making-an-impression

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#command #editing #editor #even #first

When I grow up, maybe I will be the first one to circle the sea. Or maybe I will just spend all my day doing everything my way. Maybe I will be in a world of my own I just hope not alone. I just know that whatever I do I will never, ever forget about you. ↗

— Oliver Neubert

#avid-reader #coming-of-age #fable #female-protagonist #life-skills

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#anyone #drawn #earn #experience #future

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#always #charming #comfortable #develop #i