I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well.
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.
If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.
The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live in, but rather to uncover new phenomena not yet imagined, and perhaps modify profoundly our basic concepts of space and time.
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.
I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument. '
In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.
Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.
Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.