Harlan Ellison Author “When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.” Passion Three Skills ♥ 3
Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator “I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that.” Thinking Order Skills ♥ 3
LO Lauren Oliver Author “I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older” Thinking Perfect Skills ♥ 3
Harrison Ford Actor “[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional pro coaches to develop the baseball skills that he needed.” Player Baseball Skills ♥ 3
Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman “The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.” Creative Skills Making Love ♥ 3
Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman “The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.” Creative Culture Skills ♥ 3
Nelson Mandela Political Leader “The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it.” Children Home Skills ♥ 3
Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor “Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.” Skills Stealing Thee ♥ 3
Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator “Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit” Practice Skills Constant ♥ 3
Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator “Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.” Mean Skills Ill Will ♥ 3
NY Nicholas Young Artist “I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time.” Skills Grateful Awareness ♥ 3
LS Lawrence Schiller Photographer, Filmmaker “I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard Malamud and say, "I'd like to introduce myself to you and to come meet you. I think I might have something that's worthy of your skills as a writer."” Thinking Skills Phones ♥ 3
