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“Keep your eyes on the prize and don't turn back.”

Eye Turns Rewards Prize Eye On The Prize

“I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.”

Kind Stills Two Hands Eye Mines Ems Friendly Offensive Spiders Crawling

Author:Colley Cibber

“It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.”

Ifs Hard Moments Dream Eye Night Fall Sleep Darkness Doors Feet Wall Beats Casts Sail Costumes Our Dreams

Author:Pablo Neruda

“The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.”

People Looks Eye Nature Attitude Habit Our Time Disturbing

Book:Marc Chagall: 1887-1985

Source: Marc Chagall: 1887-1985

“Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!”

Eye Sleep Lows Lullaby

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world.”

World Eye Spirit

Author:Rumi

“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”

Feels Heart Feelings Seems Eye Social Ears Definitions

Book:The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1927-1931

Source: The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1927-1931

“The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.”

Eye Purpose Masters Victory Perseverance Wander Relax Nerves Blanche

Author:Edmund Burke

“O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.”

Thinking Men Feels May Children Home Eye Parent Wife Bravery Ashamed Scorn Absent Be A Man

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.”

People Trying Years Has Beens Sometimes Eye Culture Watches Loud Editors Vulgar Amusement Amused Duplicate Intervening Brash Regan

Author:Judith Regan

“Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.”

Stills Eye Spirit Night Stars Tree Love You Arms Holy Rain Gold Sells Delight Scent Curves Loveliness Pine Trees

Book:Love Songs

Source: Love Songs

“To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.”

Helping Eye Able Artist Inspire Stranger Observation

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.”

Eye Running Dog Chaotic Apocalyptic Euphoria Dog Days

Author:Florence Welch

“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.”

“The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.”

Eye Teaching

Book:Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings

Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings

“If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn't want anyone killed. I'd be satisfied with just a little buckshot to begin with.”

People Ifs Want Littles Government Eye Paint Satisfied Landscape Policemen

Author:Edgar Degas

“Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.”

People Thinking Men Eye Perspective Draws Get Away Unimportant Profile Viewpoints

Author:Georges Braque

“One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.”

Men Stills Light Eye Wonder Mystery Universal Educated Controlled Delicate Organs Sense Of Wonder Snail Educated Man Wonder And Mystery

Author:Loren Eiseley

“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”

“The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.”

World Soul Eye Artist Universal Rhythm Impulse His Eyes Sensations Perpetual Submit Communion Day To Day Centre Scrutinize Fortuitous

Book:Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

Source: Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

“It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.”

Way Whole Feelings Eye Perfect Impossible Figures Masters Lips Sweetness Seals Selected Refinement Solemnity Closed Eyes

Book:The works of John Ruskin

Source: The works of John Ruskin

“You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.”

Mean Soul Eye Lenses

Book:The works of John Ruskin

Source: The works of John Ruskin

“A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.”

Sometimes Eye Novel Sky Mirrors Blue Mud Highways

Author:Stendhal

“I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!”

Mind Art Eye Running Joy Voice Race Morning Cry Thousand Spring Busy Waking Rays Rome Excess Thrilling These Eyes

Book:The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

“Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.”

Source: The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII

“Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.”

Eye Honest Fishes Noses Apples Housewife

Book:Collected Poems, 1959

Source: Collected Poems, 1959

“What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.”

People Men Want Should Heart Shows Eye Eccentric Disagreeable Nonentity

Book:Van Gogh by Vincent

Source: Van Gogh by Vincent

“The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs”

Ifs Eye Mad Majority South Painter France Yellow Orange

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.”

Thinking Way Looks Eye Clothes Dresses Sells Hopefully Closets Accessories Swollen

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.”

Knows Looks Eye White Paint Conviction Strikes Spots Boards

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's

“Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.”

Facts Eye Accepting Share Tomorrow Journalism Journalist Cliche Excluded Carelessness

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.”

Wells Hands Eye Poor Clothes Reactions Italian Contempt Lifting Amused

Author:James Laver

“The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history”

Eye Events Periods Unique Holocaust Frank Uniqueness Testament Atrocities Through The Eyes

Author:Charles Kennedy

“My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.”

Eye Nature Understood

Author:Claude Monet

“When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.”

Eye Born Crow Pluck

Author:David Sedaris

“How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.”

Eye Order Courses Simple Clear Benefits Exposed Contrast

Author:Samuel Beckett

“It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.”

Sometimes Happens Eye Forget Ego Stranger Who I Am

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.”

Ifs Eye Roles Capacity Mirrors Passive

Author:Andre Breton

“To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.”

Eye Virtue Dangerous Vices Clergy Philosophic

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.”

Mind Eye Speak Pleasure Virtue Fellowship

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.”

Knows Way Looks Children Eye Faces Worry Love You Strange Sweet Drink Concerned Mirrors Noses Muscles Your Face Cramps

Author:Hafez

“A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.”

Mind Looks May Eye Hundred Crosses Deceit Sincerity Duplicity Double Minded

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Man is not intended to see through the eyes of another, hear through another's ears nor comprehend with another's brain. Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.”

Men Humans Eye Individual Brain Responsibility Creative Plans Creatures Ears Through The Eyes Endowment Power And Responsibility

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Eye Moving Emotion My Heart Surprise Delight Outrage Surprise Me

Author:Denis Diderot

“To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree”

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

“There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.”

Eye Black Half Harm Charm Wondrous Meek Black Eyes

Book:Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love

Source: Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love

“Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.”

Knows Heart I Can Hands Eye Models Draws

Author:David Hockney

“Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.”

Should Eye Rooms Imagine Color Wall Pointing Irises Eye Color

Book:Bemerkungen Über Die Farben

Source: Bemerkungen Über Die Farben

“When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.”

Trying Eye Speak Achieve Unions Great Things Needles Through The Eyes Camels Containers

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.”

Ifs Eye Accepting Tradition

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

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