N Quotes
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“No work exists in a vacuum: everything you make and do as an artist or designer sits within the history of art and design and the wider world at the time that you make it. Without deeply knowing what surrounds our own creative output, we cannot assert its place in the world. Therefore, developing an in-depth research process is central to evolving a robust and informed art and design practice.”
Source: The Central Saint Martins Guide to Art & Design: Key lessons from the world-renowned Foundation course
“No work for grace. It can only be received through faith in Jesus Christ.”
“No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.”
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity”
Source: Strength to Love
“No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.”
“No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.”
“No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)
“No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.”
Source: A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...
“No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.”
“no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.”
“No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this sense... The Christian's life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.”
Source: Art & the Bible: Two Essays
“No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.”
“No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.”
“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.”
“No working relationship can be based on the premise, 'Me — woman; you — man!' It’s 'we two' trying to make a job better.
When I’m working on a picture, if a scene goes wrong in rehearsal I say, 'There’s something wrong with this — it goes wrong right here.'
It happened not long ago, and Robert Gist, the director, said, 'I know, I feel it every time when you get to that one line.'
'Let’s try it again,' I said, “and let me try it as it comes to me that the character, Marion, would do it.'
[…]
Where the tact came in was in my referring to the character, and what the script earlier SHE would do. I didn’t say 'This is what a woman would do,' or, 'This is what I, Joan Crawford, think should be done.”
Source: My Way of Life
“No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.”
“No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.”
“No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wings. - Garraty's thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk”
“No worries and no goodbyes, just give me a smile.”
“No worries. I'm just happy to see your hen house being take care of by such a fabulous cock. She leans in and whispers to me, And it is a fabulous cock am I right? I say nothing, simply grin.”
Source: Up to Me
“No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration." I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“No worries. They don’t scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I’ll never forgive you. (Alix)”
Source: Born of Ice
“No worries.You go save the world.I'm gonna finish getting a cavity.”
“No worry about your race, boy. Time changes the nature of them all, in the end.”
Source: Silver on the Tree
“No worry before its time.”
Source: Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
“No worse a husband than the best of men.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-
woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing —
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-
ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'.
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.”
Source: The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
“No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.”
Source: Alan Watts - In the Academy: Essays and Lectures
“No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.”
Source: Prose works
“No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.”
Source: Conqueror
“No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.”
“No wound is worse than counterfeited love.”
Source: The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“No wounds are permanent. All will eventually heal. So as the pain; all the heartaches will fade away.”
“No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.”
Source: The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938
“No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!”
“No writer ever knows enough words but he doesn’t have to try to use all that he does know. Tests would show that I had an enormous vocabulary and through the years it must have grown, but I never had a desire to display it in the way that John Updike or William Buckley or William Safire do to such lovely and often surprising effect. They use words with such spectacular results; I try, not always successfully, to follow the pattern of Ernest Hemingway who achieved a striking style with short familiar words. I want to avoid calling attention to mine, judging them to be most effective as ancillaries to a sentence with a strong syntax.
My approach has been more like that of Somerset Maugham, who late in life confessed that when he first thought of becoming a writer he started a small notebook in which he jotted down words that seemed unusually beautiful or exotic, such as chalcedony, for as a novice he believed that good writing consisted of liberally sprinkling his text with such words. But years later, when he was a successful writer, he chanced to review his list and found that he had never used even one of his beautiful collection. Good writing, for most of us, consists of trying to use ordinary words to achieve extraordinary results.
I struggle to find the right word and keep always at hand the largest dictionary my workspace can hold, and I do believe I consult it at least six or seven times each working day, for English is a language that can never be mastered.* [*Even though I have studied English for decades I am constantly surprised to find new definitions I have not known: ‘panoply’ meaning ‘a full set of armor’, ‘calendar’ meaning ‘a printed index to a jumbled group of related manuscripts or papers’.
—Chapter IX “Intellectual Equipment”, page 306”
Source: The World Is My Home: A Memoir
“No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.”
“No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown.”
Source: Lolita
“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”
“No writer is great unless he also has the knack of stirring up associations in his readers' minds with every phrase.”
Source: TREFETHEN'S INDEX CARDS: FORTY YEARS OF NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE, WORDS AND MATHEMATICS
“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.”
“No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.”
“No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.”
“No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.”
Source: Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories