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“To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.”

Feels Should Mean Might Beautiful Grows Cutting Elements Negative Roots Difficulty Plant Arise Stem Embarrassed Choke

Author:Alain de Botton

“I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.”

Ifs Want Real Ends Crazy Streets Building Elements Difficulty Come Up Colour Shops Location Avenues Outlines Being Crazy

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

Might Turns Passion Difficult Beauty Moral Fashion Periods Elements Eternal Eternity Difficulty Determine Relative Quantity

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.”

Ifs Men Would Be Party Existence Cases Elements Benefits Thirds Difficulty Stronger Occasions Combination Labour Swings Introducing Labour Party Pendulums Third Parties Liberal Party

Author:Austen Chamberlain

“In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.”

Kind Earth Elements Optimism Difficulty Spite Persist Here And There

Book:Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry

Source: Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry

“A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.”

May Art Enough Problem Lying Challenges Novel Elements Spring Difficulty Familiar Confusion Spots Helpful Instruction Suggestions Luminous Attending

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.”

Thinking Problem Form Science Simple Decision Mistake Essentials Elements Solutions Difficulty Concrete Vague No Problem

Author:J. P. Morgan

“My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.”

Two Team Love You Elements Respect Difficulty Affection Coexist Reunited Reuniting

Author:Shakira

“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”

Ifs Writing Trying Book Hours Elements Difficulty Surprise Expecting Element Of Surprise Surprise Attacks

Author:H. G. Wells

“For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.”

Form Lines Example Color Painting Materials Elements Difficulty Arise Cinema Abstract Manipulation

Book:Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

Source: Film Form: Essays in Film Theory