People have this illusion that all over the world, all of the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world nothing is happening.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce Brothers
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Broun
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.
What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
Maximus
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
Men are blind in their own cause.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Plautus
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Winning is half the battle. Losing is the other half.
Humble
Luck marches with those who give their very best
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. Truman
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
Sheryl Sandberg
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
Jack Welch
Depression is anger without enthusiasm
Anon.
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.
Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Danc
Anger is not only inevitable, but it is necessary. For in its place is indifference, the worst of all human qualities.
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.
Fernand Leger
On the contrary, art consists of inventing and not copying. The Italian Renaissance is a period of artistic decadence. Those men, devoid of their predecessors' inventiveness, thought they were stronger as imitators-that is false. Art must be free in its inventiveness, it must raise us above too much reality. This is its goal, whether it is poetry or painting. The plastic life, the picture, is made up of harmonious relationships among volumes, lines, and colors. These are the three forces that must govern works of art. If, in organizing these three essential elements harmoniously, one finds that objects, elements of reality, can enter into the composition, it may be better and may give the work more richness. But they must be subordinated to the three essential elements mentioned above. Modern work thus takes a point of view directly opposed to academic work. Academic work puts the subject first and relegates pictorial values to a secondary level, if there is room.For us others, it is the opposite. Every canvas, even if nonrepresentational, that depends on harmonious relationships of the three forces-color, volume, and line-is a work of art. I repeat, if the object can be included without shattering the governing structure, the canvas is enriched.Sometimes these relationships are merely decorative when they are abstract. But if objects figure in the composition-free objects with a genuine plastic value-pictures result that have as much variety and profundity as any with an imitative subject.
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