Quotes of: Practice-makes Keyword

Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.

Marian Seldes

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Walter Pater

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Alan Moore

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

Dylan Moran

GoPro represents everything that excites me in a company - incredible products, compelling content, a world-renowned brand and, above all, amazing people who make it happen.

Tony Bates

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.

Carlo Ponti

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

E. M. Forster

The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

Pink

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

Peter Singer

Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman.

10 Alone

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

500 Ways to Be a Better Writer

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.

Another Faust

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

Ancillary Justice

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Allegiant

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

All the King's Men

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

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