"I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college."

-- Scott Westerfeld

#College Quotes #Class Quotes #Training Quotes

“I always say that you could publish trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. Almost anybody can make up a list of rules that are 80 percent as good as what we taught people. What they couldnâ€™t do is give them the confidence to stick to those rules even when things are going bad.”
“Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.”
“[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.”
“Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.”
“Impact is more important than method.”
“Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.”
“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.”
“Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.”

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