#skills

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#average #challenges #fairly #flow #higher

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. ↗

— Anita Desai

#day #effort #every #every day #honed

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain. ↗

— Shaun White

#brain #games #i #interactive #learned

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head. ↗

— Kip Winger

#head #hone #i #mastery #music

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#concern #him #himself #occupy #philosopher

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#being #capable #communication #communication skills #even

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#arrogant #business #false #german #nothing

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet! ↗

— Deborah Bull

#acting #argue #every #expect #juliet

I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#because #been #better #certain #classes