“Skills can be learned. But a positive spirit and a good heart need to be innate.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“I have a deep fear of being too much. That one day I will find my someone, and they will realize that I am a hurricane. That they will step back and be intimidated by my muchness.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.”— Alan Shepard, goodreads.com
“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping, if it seemed to me I knew nothing.”— Paul Cezanne, amazon.com
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”— Erica Jong, amazon.com
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”— Lorraine Hansberry, amazon.com
“And everyone knows that what we say isn't always communicated properly. Like any form of art, it takes practice. But the more you practice seeing it from other people's points of view, the better you'll get at communication. And this doesn't just stop at verbal communication. With our paintings and…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“Practice thinking about things from other points of view. If there are multiple people you're communicating with, like a boss and a client and a friend, you have to make sure that the message you intend on sending to all of them is the actual message that they're receiving. A lot of times we have to…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“One of the reasons I love art is that it doesn't matter if we have all the money in the world. It can't buy us skills. And if you don't have all the money in the world, you can still develop your skills way past the richest person. We only need to put in time, effort and logic, and honing our craft.…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“In the media sea of this generation, we become so used to wanting something and as long as we have the money, we can get it right away. There's so many tutorials out there that show you simple techniques we all do to our art to make it look a little bit better or cooler to the average person. But th…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“Commitment is very rewarding when it is practiced with integrity, mindfulness, and skillfulness.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“For whatever reason, working out helps you transfer the skill of focusing, and indeed it is a skill, to other areas of your life. You can’t run and bike simultaneously, and you can’t do a plank and a shoulder press at the same time. It teaches you that even when you multitask, you can only in realit…”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.”— Jean Chatzky, nydailynews.com
“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com