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skills honey taste
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. Charles Caleb Colton
skills generations novelists
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on. Charles Stross
skills perception taoism
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts
skills age lucky
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both. Alan Blinder
skills cards world
I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon. Dave Franco
skills judging-yourself luck
Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself. Carl Icahn
skills class looks
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out. Billy Joe Saunders
skills mind soil
In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . . Edward Gibbon
skills energy kind
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. David Hockney
tradition deny western
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. Camille Paglia
tradition lost hardest
traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy. Edith Wharton
tradition creation
There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing. Carlos Fuentes
tradition classical-music music-is
The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. Charles Rosen
tradition
I keep up the tradition, the zydeco. Boozoo Chavis
tradition
The dead govern the living. Auguste Comte
tradition
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Allan Bloom
tradition reconcile customs
Custom reconciles us to everything. Edmund Burke
tradition ideology hard
It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition. Anthony Daniels
music-is
That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to. David Gray
music-is minimum snobbery
But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. Arthur Phillips
music-is escapism private-things
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. Agnes Obel
music-is-my-life without-music dies
Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything. Ayumi Hamasaki
music-is united ifs
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired. Boethius
music-is blues-music heard
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. Bruce Springsteen
music-is
Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic. Charles Spurgeon
music-is geometry
Music is geometry in time. Arthur Honegger
music-is affected
The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. David Byrne