Workshops Quotes

• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Temporary Defeat

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• Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Students, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

  Paul Fussell

  Time, Alarms, Warning

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• Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Practice, Twenties, Polish

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• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Cabinets, Spirit, Makers

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• I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

  Jack Youngblood

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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• It seems to me that the whole purpose of the workshops is really twofold. One - to help people make better pictures, and two - to unleash their creativity to the fullest amount that they possibly can.

  Freeman Patterson

  Creativity, Two, People

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• The workshop of character is everyday life.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Character, Everyday, Everyday Life

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.

  James W. Loewen

  Native American, Giving, Choices

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Death, Dark, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Poems”

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• Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.

  Octavia Butler

  Class, People, Feedback

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• The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

  Igor Babailov

  Artist, Class, Skills

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• I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.

  Ted Martinez

  Determination, Frustration, Perspective

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• It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

  Alice Hamilton

  Believe, Italian, Europe

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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• Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Thirty, Middle, Middle Ages

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• I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Children, Years

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• But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Ideas, Innovation, Together

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• These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Spinning Plates

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• Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.

  Delbert L. Stapley

  Character, Routine, Trials

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• I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.

  Travis Morrison

  Writing, Technique, Writing Workshop

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• [In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

  James Dyson

  Home, Learning, Science

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• If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in the publishing world take a chance on you? I don't believe that you need an MFA to be a writer, but I do think you need to take some good workshops.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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• Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

  Jodi Picoult

  Giving, Criticism, Writing Workshop

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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• I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.

  Michelle Obama

  Hate, Real, Diversity

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.50, PublicAffairs

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• I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Editing, Editors, Want

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