A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. Reggie Jackson
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin? Marilyn Monroe
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. Willa Cather
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument. James Blake
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page. Paul Auster
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness. Arnold Palmer
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. /c/cam_newton.html#4gdAqjRfwfdOc91j.99Cam Newton
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. Mahatma Gandhi
We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him. Polly Berrien Berends
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.C. S. Lewis