#trope

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #beginning #firmly #ground #in the beginning

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance. ↗

— Bryan Miller

#balance #cook #courage #exceptional #go

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#close #consent #control #does #exert

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#bad #bad habits #character #comedy #fall

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#center #intelligence #new #skill #successfully

I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas. ↗

— Georgia Jagger

#balance #bear #both #business #dying

Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual. ↗

— David Amerland

#social-media-addiction #social-media-qualities #social-network-tropes #business

In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#competition #day #good #i #may

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. ↗

— Iain Banks

#safety #story #technology #trope #age

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise. ↗

— Michael Kors

#biggest lesson #consistent #fashion #i #inconsistent