"To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive"

-- Paulo Coelho

#Practice Quotes #Intuition Quotes #Technique Quotes

“When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole '60s thing, and that made me want to make songs, to go beyond just playing an instrument. I needed to write I guess.”
“Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.”
“Now let us regard the idea of God from the magic standpoint, according to the four elements, the so-called tetragrammaton, the unspeakable, the supreme: the fiery principle involves the almightiness and the omnipotence, the airy principle owns the wisdom, purity and clarity, from which aspect proceeds the universal lawfulness. Love and eternal life are attributed to the watery principle, and omnipresence, immortality and consequently eternity belong to the earth principle. These four aspects together represent the supreme Godhead.”
“When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.”
“Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.”
“Animals are good to think with.”

Source : "Totemism". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962.
“The only person pressuring me is myself.”
“Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him a little bit. I just think maybe they have similar voices.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com

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