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“In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.”

Whole Inspiration Hours Doubt Painting Whole Life Enthusiasm Torture

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

“If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Self Hours Doubt Anxiety Exhausted Exhaustion Self-doubt Procrastinating

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

Men Life Long Dream Life Is Dies Hours Doubt Tears Flower Spring Sick Graves Bitter Dawn Funeral Spring Flowers

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you--blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.”

Knows Heart Young Values Hours Know How Doubt Blessing Disappointment Various Trials Nurse Amiable Admonition

Book:The Children of the Abbey: A Tale

Source: The Children of the Abbey: A Tale

“Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy; Companions of my young desires; in doubt My oracles; my wings in high pursuit. Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours; Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul, Our faces beaming with unearthly love;-- Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.”

“Life's sunniest hours are not without The shadow of some lingering doubt-- Amid its brightest joys will steal Spectres of evil yet to feel-- Its warmest love is blent with fears, Its confidence a trembling one-- Its smile--the harbinger of tears-- Its hope--the change of April's sun! A weary lot--in mercy given, To fit the chastened soul for heaven.”

Feels Soul Joy Evil Given Heaven Hours Love Is Sun Doubt Tears Fit Shadow Mercy Stealing Weary April Trembling Lingering Harbinger Spectre

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more.”

Ifs States Desire Turns Opportunity Hours Sleep Answers Doubt Fate Return Mortals Conquer Vain Gates Woe Foe Follow Me Feasting Opportunity Knocking

Author:John James Ingalls

“If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.”

Ifs Trying Hours Doubt Four Minutes Internet Connections Cells Relative Fifteen Stretching Input Ultras Supervisors Cubicles Internet Connection

Author:Rob Payne

“Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'”

Thinking I Can Self Can Do Hours Doubt Fine Studios Useless Torment I Can Do It Self-doubt Conning

Author:Imogen Heap

“Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.”

Men Looks Hours Doubt Danger Adversity Midst

Book:Sensation and Sex

Source: Sensation and Sex

“The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.”

Knows Trying Years Real Guy Hours Brain Know How Doubt Week Talent Television Goes On Creating Scientist Cancer Fifty Tobacco Real Talent

Author:Robert Kenner

“1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger. 3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.”

Enough Able Hours Interesting Doubt Conversation Tests Boring Stranger Airports When In Doubt

Author:Michael Bell