A Quotes
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“As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.”
“As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.”
Source: Assays
“As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.”
Source: The Way of the Fight
“As armas nucleares transformaram a guerra entre superpotências num suicídio coletivo e fizeram com que fosse impossível procurar o domínio do mundo pela força das armas.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.”
Source: The Works of William Harvey ...
“As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.”
Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
“As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“As Artificial Intelligences become increasingly intertwined with the fabric of our existence, our solemn duty is to ensure they mirror the noblest aspects of our nature, forming a sacred union with the values that make us truly human.”
“As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals.”
Source: ART OF LIVING
“As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."”
“As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.”
“As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.”
“As artists know, the creative process is consummately singular, It is a sojourn whose signposts are legible only to him: a trip whose personal nature is its point.”
Source: Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
“As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.”
“As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?”
“As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.”
“As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.”
“As artists, it’s our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging.”
“As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.”
“As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.”
“As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
“As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.”
“As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our own human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting their turn to be born.”
“As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.”
“As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.”
“As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.”
“As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care about what you do, and give them really cool interactive experiences to make them feel appreciated.”
“As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.”
“As asinine as it was, he’d gone and done the one thing he swore to himself he would never do, especially not with her. He’d fallen for the girl he could never have.”
Source: Her Enemy Protector
“As Asset Managers, our purpose is to grow wealth. Our clients should be wealthier because of our management. And society should be wealthier because of our investments. This is a priority at Mayflower-Plymouth.”
“As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.”
“As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.”
“As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.”
“As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.”
“As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.”
“As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.”
“As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.”
Source: Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...
“As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion.”
“As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the 'scope of their threatenability': 'Why do men feel threatened by woman?' I asked a male friend of mine....'[M]en are bigger, most of the time...and they have on the average a lot more money and power.' 'They're afraid women will laugh at them,' he said. 'Undercut their world view.' Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, 'Why do women feel threatened by men?' 'They're afraid of being killed,' they said'.”
Source: Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times
“As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to that which we have not experienced personally.”
“As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.”
“As Augustus basked in self-praise, he became aware of a movement beyond his reflection, beyond the glass. At first he saw the flicking tail of the yellow goatfish, then a blue and gold tang, then a school of pearl wrasses. As he refocused his eyes into the tank he realized that all of the creatures of the aquarium were just across the glass, all of them staring at him. What on Earth is going on here, their expressions seemed to say.
Augustus shook his head, suddenly uncomfortable. “Youse all there in the fish tank,” he growled, pointing, “youse can go stuff yerself for all I care! I’m done here.”
Source: FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."”
“As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden
“As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That’s not fair. That is not our way.”
“As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.”
“As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.”
“As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.”