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Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings

“For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.”

Certain Speak Colour Sensations Rays Disposition

Author:Isaac Newton

“There is a certain justice in criticism.”

Certain Justice Criticism

Author:Stephen Spender

“There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.”

Men Believe Ideas Different Certain Order Common Opinion Modern Intellect Instance Herds Suggesting

Book:The Passing of the Modern Age

Source: The Passing of the Modern Age

“Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?”

Years Certain Worry New York Ten Pressure Complaining Luxury Right Thing No Money Doing The Right Thing Just Saying Not Worrying

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Certain Truth Is Expectations What You Want Obligation Want Me You Want Me

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Certain Responsibility Alive Type Amount Projects Sticks Decent Teamwork Flexibility Rest Of Your Life Notoriety

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.”

Doe Feelings Certain Speak Blood Thousand Pure Red Relation Wine Glasses Concrete Rooted Hunters Caps

Author:Robert Motherwell

“It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.”

Art Sometimes Certain Humour Forgotten Wit Comic Abstract Encounters Anguish Abstract Art

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”

Way Kind May Sometimes Dream Might Certain Order Painting Perception Perceive Subconscious Chords

Author:Robert Motherwell

“It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!”

Way Age Lasts Night Certain Hours Sleep Eight Fantastic Spokes Last Night

Author:Johnny Depp

“At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.”

Form Certain Path Stage Satisfaction Devotion Devotee

Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one.”

Kind Art Artist Certain Order Social Painting Depends Succeed Painful Friendly Composer Insecure Sociability Order To Succeed

Book:The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

“A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.”

Way Hands Eye Certain Support Fire Alive Circles Burning Sparks Coming Back Conductor

Author:Paul Klee

“Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.”

May Certain Ability Levels Creativity Example Intelligent Surprise Intellect

Author:John Cleese

“The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.”

People May Certain Company Envy Generosity Sensitivity Competitiveness

Author:Alain de Botton

“In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.”

Knows Men Wells Enough Facts Home Running Jobs Past Certain Know How Taken Broken Men And Women Woods Decades Magazines Assumption Shops Articles Transfers Suggesting

Author:Robert Briffault

“There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.”

Men May Facts Law Certain Enjoy Moral Ethics Universal Statements Code Conformity Nature Of Man True Freedom Moral Law Moral Code

Book:Mind of the Maker

Source: Mind of the Maker

“If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.”

People Ifs Self Seems Political Certain Sin Waste Prejudice Reform Deception Selfishness Flaws Wasting Time Self Deception Political Reform

Author:Steven Pinker

“A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.”

I Can Happens Certain Attention Audience Talent Demand Ears Bases Charisma Conductor

Author:Isaac Stern

“Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.”

Ifs Humans Home Certain Human Nature Strikes Nervous Confused Nervous System Factual Nervousness Narration Minutiae

Author:Glenway Wescott

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