F Quotes
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“For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.”
“For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.”
“For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.”
“For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.”
“For an artist, to be normal is a disaster”
“For an atheist you will be always considered as a human no matter what, but for a religious if you don’t belong with them, you are always an infidel.”
“For an athlete myself, it is especially meaningful for our country to host an Olympics. Every athlete hopes to participate in an Olympics, so I still can't believe the games of dreams is going to take place in Korea.”
“For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.”
Source: They Call Me Coach
“For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.”
“For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.”
“For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.”
“For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.”
“For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.”
“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.”
Source: The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer
“For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.”
“For an earthbound species, I am native of earth - for an interplanetary species, I am native of Milky Way - for an intergalactic species, I am a native of the cosmos - for a lifeform beyond time and space, I am but a speck of carbon-based electrochemical memory.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.”
“For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.”
“For an economy to prosper, trust between the states must be established, and their individual strengths be appreciated.”
“For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.”
“For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines.”
“For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.”
Source: The rise and fall of the Confederate Government
“For an enterprise, the digital readiness in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) business environment an accurate, reliable, and timely information flow along with the customer trust, play a fundamental role.
Destructive and demoralising, the financial impact of experiencing a data breach continues to increase year over year for businesses. A very complex situation of a data breach / ransomware / malware attack (to name a few cyberthreats) leads to even more complex and challenging reputational damage, making, potentially, a cyber-attack costs ongoing for years. As threat actors are innovating, cybersecurity experts assert their own unique interpretation of trust.
The Zero Trust approach therefore is a powerful and promising concept.”
“For an entertainer, part of the thing you do is just style. And the coke did help me get into great runs of pure form.”
“For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.”
“For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.”
“For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.”
“For an ethical vegan it doesn't matter when we started eating meat and for how long, as animal exploitation is not avoided because this is the 'natural' thing to do, but the 'moral' thing to do. However, human biology helps vegans to thrive, rather than hinders them, which explains all the health benefits reported when people switch to a vegan diet.”
Source: Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World
“For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.”
“For an everyday makeup look, I usually use Almay's CC cream, then concealer, bronzer and maybe a bit of mascara. The whole thing takes me ten minutes. I apply everything with my hands and blend like crazy.”
“For an existential problem to be overcome, it must be experienced in the form of a projected and dramatized dilemma.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.”
“For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.”
“For an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and the sweat salted his eyes and salted the cut under his eye and on his forehead. He was not afraid of the black spots.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville.”
“For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned”
“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
“For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.”
“For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man. Few ideologies have won enough prominence to survive the hard competitive struggle of persuasion, and only two have come out on top and essentially defeated all others: the ideology which interprets history as an economic struggle of classes, and the other that interprets history as a natural fight of races. The appeal of both to large masses was so strong that they were able to enlist state support and establish themselves as official national doctrines. But far beyond the boundaries within which race-thinking and class-thinking have developed into obligatory patterns of thought, free public opinion has adopted them to such an extent that not only intellectuals but great masses of people will no longer accept a presentation of past or present facts that is not in agreement with either of these views.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
“For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!”
“For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.”
Source: Annihilation of Caste
“For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.”
“For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.”
“For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.”
“For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.”
Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.”
“For an instant, at least, they seemed one and the same, as though all anguish exists in the same deep well, no matter what loss or misfortune leads us to it. We might be at odds, hate each other, and desired each others destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.”
Source: Muse of Nightmares
“For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.”