Tashika Atkins Quotes & Sayings

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better. — Walt Disney

With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship. — Nico Muhly

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy. — Baden Powell De Aquino

Oh, Brown was our lion and Tubman our fox, great-grandson! — Terry Bisson

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up. — Franklin Raines

Think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings! — Anne Sexton

I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway. — Neil Gaiman

I'd happily give up every noise in the world if I could just keep her laugh. — Aly Martinez

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet. — George MacDonald

An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
"Nature and Idea" December 30, 1956 — Frank Lloyd Wright

Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark. — Alex Goot

And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I'd need him. That's what made me so blindly ready to go off with him. What boy doesn't wait his whole childhood to walk alongside his father on equal terms? — Peter Geye