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The artist is nothing without the gift,
but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society must set the artist free
to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy
The highest art is always the most religious,
and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
is to try and express what we all feel.
Not to tell people how to feel.
Not as a preacher, not as a leader,
but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law
from observation of the works of Genius,
whether of man or Nature.
The Artisan is he who merely applies
the rules which others have detected.
- Henry David Thoreau
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
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