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“I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.”

Ifs Years Ends Left Achieve Havens Painting My Time Worthwhile

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.”

Ifs Ends Language Natural Results Speech Thirds India Patterns Sentences Phrases Characteristics Reaching Appropriate Urban Juggling

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.”

Ifs World Ends Moving Turns Morning Crime Future News Wake Up Credit Checks Cards Etc Pot Cake Max Credit Card Dip Carrots Coming To An End Clams Vat Nachos

Author:Anne Lamott

“If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.”

Ifs Needs Looks Ends Nature Paint Canvas Organize Naturalism

Author:David Hockney

“If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.”

Ifs Ends Process Confined

Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.”

People Ifs Men Want Should Mean Ends Shows Values Decision Economics Tasks Ultimate Aim Chosen Judgement Definite Scope Theoretical Attainment Valuation

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.”

Ifs Humans Wells Doe Ends Action Actors Impossible Response Stimulus Human Actions

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.”

Ifs Art Ends Reality Artist Degrees Odd Assumption Unconscious Contradiction Converses Dichotomy Layman

Author:Robert Motherwell

“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.”

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.”

Ifs Want Looks Art Ideas Ends Speak Pieces Art Is Planning No Idea Imposing

Author:Nick Bantock

“The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.”

Ifs Ends Helping Effort Progress Iraq Witness Occupation

Author:Amr Moussa

“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”

Ifs Needs Years Two Ends Hands Next Speak Deals Effort Week Stage Keys Succeed Rounds Critical Agriculture Two Weeks Padlocks

Author:Celso Amorim

“If you don't ever get out of your comfort zone you will never make it to the end zone!.”

Ifs Ends Comfort Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Deborah Roberts

“Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.”

Ifs Art Ends Life Is Artist Week Economic Integrity Ideals Independence Profession Preserves Aesthetic Hateful Grind Solace Ideal Life Daily Grind Economic Independence Week End

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.”

“If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.”

Ifs Ends Facts Becoming Harm Frightening

Author:Paula Rego

“We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself.”

Ifs Men World Believe Important Ends Today Able Life Is Religious Hero Materialism Transformed Religious Faith Materialistic Idealistic Materialistic World

Author:Miguel Serrano

“I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.”

Ifs World Ends Courses Asks Fun Husband My Husband End Of The World Just For Fun

Book:I Love You-- Still: To Keep the Love, Ya Gotta Laugh

Source: I Love You-- Still: To Keep the Love, Ya Gotta Laugh

“Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.”

People Ifs Needs Ends Force Ought Ego Brushes

Author:Robert Genn

“The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.”

Ifs Ends Whole Facts Lasts Science Steps Journey Hard Work Intellectual Research Crosses Workers Vain Accomplishment Accomplished Hopeless Industrious

Author:Max Planck

“Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.”

Ifs Should Made War Ends Middle Fronts Battle Engaged Latter Total War Infantry Cavalry

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.”

“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”

Ifs Ends Lasts Time Religion Faith Patience Endure Storm Midst Metaphysics End Times Nonconformity Time Patience Faith And Patience

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.”

Ifs Wells Ends Body Dies Individual Dust Mortals Immortal Physical Body Crumbling

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”

“Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all."”

Ifs Said Ideas Ends Done Might Spiritual Next Energy Sitting Tables Busy Agreement Display Impressed Next Day Pardon Vacuums Things Done Countrymen Getting Things Done Camouflage

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.”

Ifs Men Should War Ends Country Would Be Enemy He Man Revolution India China Esteem Beaten Englishmen

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty and charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. So many people seem to go about their life's business with their eyes shut. Indeed, they object to other people keeping their eyes open. Unable to play themselves, they dislike the play of others.”

People Ifs World Ends Play Seems Eye Wonderful Objects Adventure Charm Dislike Wonderful World

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches

“Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".”

Ifs Ends Done Politics Week Havens Promise Republican Quiet Democrat Attacking Week End

Author:Will Rogers

“If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Spiritual Common Teacher Common Sense Make Sense Enlightened Cult Listen To Yourself Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.'”

Ifs Thinking World Ends Eye Earth Christian Given Heaven Christ Can Do Brother All Things Weak Lifts Elders End Of The World

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm.”

People Ifs Two Ends Christian Speak Growth Views Deals Study Grace Four Ready Ought Ears Prepared Passing Passings Realms Heavenly Passages Be Prepared Coins Passing It

Book:Talks to Christians

Source: Talks to Christians

“In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Kind Two Ends Self Motivational Findings Losing Madness Breathing Contemplation Two Things Finding Yourself Balanced Losing Yourself Balanced Life Stepping Back

Author:Pico Iyer

“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.”

“Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Should Ends Goal Regret Chosen Pursue No Regrets

Book:Path To Tranquility

Source: Path To Tranquility

“If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.”

Ifs Thinking Ends

Author:Robert D. Richardson

“The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Ends Action

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

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