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“As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.”

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“The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.”

Ends Individual Process Habit Waste Complexes Trends Systematic Futility Revulsion

Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class

Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class

“Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.”

Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

“I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.”

“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.”

Should Wells Littles Ends Character Might Novel Seeing Reader Ordinary Abnormal Present Day Ordinary Life Day Life Reluctance Main Characters Abnormality Arresting

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle Without struggle there is no life.”

Needs Important War Ends Hard Happens Dies Peace Struggle Hard Work One Day Ideals Important Things Convinced Arise Banner

Author:Kathe Kollwitz

“A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.”

Should Ends Welcome Ecstasy Cynicism Agony Idealist Cynic Romantic Life

Author:Julie Burchill

“I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.”

Years Ends Running Term Steps Office Constitution Election Presidential Presidential Election

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin”

World Heart Long Ends Running Decision Weakness Gods Will Ruins Obedience Fixed Long Runs Wickedness Wrecks Deformity Obedience To God

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.”

Ifs Kind Art Ends Beauty Idols Aesthetic Allegiance Seductive Beauty Of Life Degenerates Caricatures Fetish Rest Of Life

Book:Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

Source: Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.”

Years Children Stills Ends School White Written Pages Research Paint Frustration Forty Bangs Slap Mania Malady Forty Years Old

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.”

Knows Ends Realizing Break Know How Draws Paint Impressionism

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.”

Writing Ends Time Perfect Results Hell Minutes Willing Polished Few Words Dead Ends Scribbles

Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.”

Knows Ends Risk Achieve Skills Scary Worth It

Author:Jack Canfield

“How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.”

Want Firsts Ideas Ends Whole Feelings Form Desire Starting Symbols Abstract Concrete Simplify Starting Point Nameless

Author:Emily Carr

“One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.”

Ends Feelings Emotion Painting Landscape

Author:Sidney Nolan

“Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.”

People Ifs Said Important Ends Wanted Company Assets Mortgage Tents

Author:Guy Browning

“Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.”

Knows Ends Knowledge

Author:Edgar Fiedler

“I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.”

Ends Seems Lasts Havens Spring Training Seasons Let Me Clean Reporters Cleanliness Spring Training Expletives

Author:Barry Bonds

“If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.”

Ifs Men Ends Would Be Young Failing Ears Tragedy Young Man If I Could One Word Doing Your Best Wasted Life

Author:Thornton T. Munger

“There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.”

Author:Jackson Pollock

“We will never forget that blessing. It was the most pained and moving blessing, which left us with the extreme testimony of his will to complete his ministry until the end.”

Ends Moving Left Forget Blessing Extremes Never Forget Ministry Testimony

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,.”

People Children Has Beens Ends Eye Age Materials Including Clever Advertising Exposed Catching Tobacco Eye Catching

Author:Frank Dobson

“I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and... I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Beautiful Three House Sides Perfect Rooms Nice Office Glasses Exposed Bedroom Distracted Very Nice Very Beautiful Three Sides

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.”

Ifs Needs Believe Littles Ends I Believe Ability Have Faith Persuading

Author:Chuck Grassley

“Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.”

Feels Firsts Different Ends Sometimes Moving Form Accepting Wind Paid Shrinks Voyages Moralist

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me.”

Ifs Men Feels Ends States Hands Wanted Form Dark Rooms Blind Canvas Clay Blind Man Dark Room

Author:Philip Guston

“Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.”

May Long Ends Feelings Success Views Journey Wind Training Stones Feel Good Stepping Stones Pads

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves.”

Way Believe Two Ends States Care Today United United States Groups Deserve Health Care Our Family Guarantees Diplomatic Guarantees That Diplomats Immunity Lawsuit

Author:Tom Harkin

“A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!”

Want Ends Turns Courses Streets Logic Faults Good Place Dead Ends

Author:Naomi Judd

“This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, .. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.”

Needs Giving Art Ends Opportunity Chance Fans Exciting Competition Speed Racing Gaming

Author:Jay Kay

“It?s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.”

Men Believe Different Ends Sleep The End Of The Day Load Old Fashioned One On One Different Experiences

Author:Mia Kirshner

“In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.”

Ends Form Sides Color Masters Pursuit Supreme Representing Matisse

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?”

People Ends Jobs Loses Pay Company Millions Groups Dollars Bunch Employee Fairness Fees Pension Dividends

Author:William D. Cohan

“And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.”

Want Ends Speak Work The End Of The Day And At The End Of The Day

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.”

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.”

Ifs Made Ends Accepting Impossible Overcoming Contradiction Impossibility

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.”

Knows Doe Ends Individual Initiative Rockets Idiocy

Book:Marque and Reprisal

Source: Marque and Reprisal

“The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.”

Ifs Mind Has Beens Ends School Purpose Force Students Evolution Strategy Accomplish

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.”

Ifs Want Ends Artist Difficult Can Do Mistake Solutions Difficulty Tricks Academic Dead Ends

Author:Isamu Noguchi

“One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.”

Littles Ends Beautiful Can Do Subjects Lovely Theatrical Appearing Lovely Things

Author:Camille Pissarro

“I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.”

Way Years Looks Ends Fighting Prove Seasons Prove Myself

Author:Greg Rusedski

“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.”

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.”

Thinking Ends Artist Fear Loses Late Terror Studios

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.”

People World Book Ends Cases Dangerous Ocean Bigger Territory Lanes Helplessness About Family

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you see.”

People Ifs Want Ends Facts Values Painting Argument Paint Canvas Pins Humanistic Old Values

Author:Frank Stella

“Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.”

World Needs Ends Eye Lasts Order Social Greater Journey Creation Piety Social Order

Author:Rowan Williams

“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.”

Ends Political Century Myth Invention Engineering Twentieth Century Methodical Great Inventions

Book:More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

“Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.”

Ifs Ends Problem Would Be Arms Constitution Lays Iraq Disaster Rejection Insurgent

Author:Andrew Bacevich

“In the end of 2012 no one looks back on this year and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep”

Years Looks Ends Remember Night Sleep Plenty

Author:Tiesto