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“Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.”

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

“I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.”

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Author:Matt Bomer

“The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.”

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Author:John Lasseter

“I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.”

“We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and vitriolic behavior sometimes around us, we will only add to the disturbance.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“The more you understand what somebody wants, needs, and fears, the more you can figure out how to add value.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.”

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Author:Carlos Slim

“I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick dog from the beginning, I just stop there.”

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Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.”

“Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.”

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Author:Philip Reeve

“Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.”

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Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.”

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Author:June Squibb

“Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments Im wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry.”

Important Simple Numbers Example Important Things Add Fabric Jewelry Garments Keep It Simple

Author:Hilary Rhoda

“I like to take mustard baths. I combine 4 lbs Epsom salts, 3 oz mustard powder, 12 oz powdered milk, and 1/2 cup baking soda, add in 12 drops each of rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils, then whisk it and pour 1/4 cup of the mix into the tub while warm water is running.”

Running Water Essentials Add Warm Oil Cups Milk Salt Baths Baking Powder Soda Tubs Mustard Rosemary Whisk Essential Oils Baking Soda

Author:Natalie Coughlin

“Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?”

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Book:We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga

Source: We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga

“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.”

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Book:Society and Solitude and Other Essays

Source: Society and Solitude and Other Essays

“Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.”

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Author:Louise Erdrich

“Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.”

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Book:The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden

Source: The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden

“In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.”

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Author:Nellie McKay

“3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.”

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Author:Kyle Dunnigan

“Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.”

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Author:Mark Vonnegut

“Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.”

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Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.”

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Author:Sadie Jones

“Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.”

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Book:Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God

Source: Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God

“By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.”

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Author:Jens Stoltenberg

“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”

“Believe it or not, my best meal is to go to the store and buy a DiGiorno pizza, come home, add some fresh Parmesan cheese, and just hang with my family!”

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Author:Cheyenne Jackson

“The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.”

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Author:Jay Abraham

“Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.”

Source: CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…

“Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube. To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.”

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Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.”

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Author:Dan Buettner

“Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.”

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Author:Dan Buettner

“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”

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Book:Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.”

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Author:Stuart Sherman

“Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.”

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Book:On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“...the cross saves completely, or not at all. Our faith does not divide the work of salvation between itself and the cross. It is the acknowledgment that the cross alone saves, and that it saves alone. Faith adds nothing to the cross, nor to its healing virtue.”

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Book:The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.

Source: The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.

“Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.”

“As long as you have a director, that's your feedback. It's the director telling you, "Okay. That was great! Okay. Can we add a little? Can you tweak it like this? Can you make it more high pitched? Can you give it a little growl?"”

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Author:Gabriel Iglesias