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Source: My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

“Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.”

Firsts Water Pay Attention Watches Baby Picks Red Fingers Smell Circles Pay Attention Concentration Pushing Salt Breeze Thumbs Ponds Hawks Salt Water

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.”

Firsts Courage Worst Talent Rate Dull Cowardice Schemes

Book:The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

“I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.”

Trying Firsts Believe Facts Problem Bigs Faces Used Son First Time Cancer My Son Terrified Big Problems

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.”

Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Ends Stories Used Lying My Own Written Subjects Wall Gun Concerned Crosses Chapters Hanging On

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.”

Firsts Sun Thirds Painter Sequence Copying

Book:The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

“Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.”

Way Firsts Grows Too Much Infinite Details Impression Finishing Freshness Lava Belated

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.”

People Should Years Firsts Process Goal Realizing Institutions Savior Succession

Author:Thomas Sowell

“On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.”

Want Firsts Jobs Sound Levels Situation Support Happened Stones Muscles Sharon American Jobs

Author:Russell Crowe

“I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.”

Firsts Stills Turns Given Money Size Canvas Baskets Fisherman Still Life

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

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

“I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft.”

Writing Firsts Shows Rooms Sick Seven Editors Dozen Editing

Author:David Sedaris

“I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.”

Thinking Way Writing Firsts Hard Week Block Ran Neurotic

Book:Sweet Bird of Youth

Source: Sweet Bird of Youth

“Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.”

Firsts Kind Mother Father Heaven Christ Born Steps Seeing Despair Saved Holiness First Steps Born Again Father Mother

Book:The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

Source: The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

“The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.”

People Firsts Effects Boring Boredom Adjusting

Author:Elias Canetti

“I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Impossible Concern Window Sight

Author:Andre Breton

“I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.”

Firsts Fear Canvas Terrified

Author:Salvador Dali

“From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.”

Feels Firsts Wells May Stills Moments Feelings Chance Novel Prove Disappear Endless Satisfied Torture Just One Chapters Dissatisfaction

Author:Emile Zola

“I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.”

Firsts May Matter Found Too Much Concern Edges Reactions Recognition Conventional Composition

Author:Ansel Adams

“I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.”

Ifs Firsts Direct Inevitable Trends Vietnam Confrontation

Author:U Thant

“Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.”

Should Firsts Children Able Youth Waffles

Author:Nancy Mitford

“He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.”

Firsts Masters Disaster Pilgrim Discouragement Constancy Valiant

Author:John Buchan

“But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay”

Ifs Should Firsts Romance Method Dust Should I

Author:John Buchan

“A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.”

People Firsts Mean Important Young Order Education Knowing First Things First

Book:In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.”

Firsts Country Felt Seasons Luck Woods Smell Forests Evening Smoke Tea Autumn September Curtains Good Luck Begin Again

Book:More Was Lost: A Memoir

Source: More Was Lost: A Memoir

“The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.”

Firsts Jobs Lying Literature House Voice Opinion Refuse Telling The Truth Nuance Misinformation Simplification Accomplices

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others would do and say. Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Would Be Differences Imagine Highest About Yourself Projection

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

Men Trying Firsts May Pain Names Causes Powerful Spring Weakness Gains Love Life Trash Quackery

Book:The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

Source: The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

“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

“I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.”

Men Firsts Artist Language Simple Fellows Boundaries Obligation Welfare Fellow Man Endeavour Simple Man

Author:Pablo Casals

“Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.”

Ifs Giving Should Firsts Energy Difficult Lists Things To Do Procrastination Items Momentum Frogs Procrastinating

Author:Brian Tracy

“I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered.”

People Way Firsts Hands Found Trouble Particular Perception Altered Illuminating

Author:Tony Blair

“No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.”

Giving Firsts May Art Might Interesting Masters Insight Good Writers

Book:Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

“There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige”

World Firsts May Faces Desire Fame Achievement Independence Reputation Prestige Independence And Freedom Adequacy

Book:A Theory of Human Motivation

Source: A Theory of Human Motivation

“To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.”

Way Firsts Use Body Steps Journey Feet Thousand Travel Miles Lifts Description First Steps Scenery Thousand Miles Where You Stand Journey Of A Thousand Miles

Book:Blossoms of Friendship

Source: Blossoms of Friendship

“Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.”

Firsts Seems Wonder Sun Confidence Shining Developing Sun Rise

Book:Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery

Source: Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery

“It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called "egolessness.”

Firsts Mean Doe Important Remember Realizing Principles Ego Contrary Buddhist Egotism

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.”

Giving Writing Firsts Inspiration Lines Sticks Riding Bulls

Author:Bob Dylan

“The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.”

Men Firsts Nations Independence Denial One Man Dogma Declaration Declaration Of Independence Infamous

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.”

Firsts Doe Lasts Artist Watercolors

Author:Willem de Kooning

“A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.”

Firsts Dying Months Thousand Six Goodbye Death And Dying Six Months Bereavement After Death

Author:Allan Gregg

“I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.”

Firsts Art Teach Teaching Taught

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.”

Firsts Beauty Steps Land Ugly First Steps Matisse

Author:Gelett Burgess

“When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.”

Firsts Persons Accepting Return Letters Casts Accepted Insult

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.”

Firsts Wells Art Filled Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism

Author:Robert Motherwell

“It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

Ifs Firsts Children Matter Language Differences Lines Levels Bottom Income Our Family Champion Academic Bottom Line Superstar

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“When I first got an agent, they gave me some advice--lose weight.”

Firsts Loses Advice Weight Agents Lose Weight

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'”

“The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.”

Want Firsts Kind Persons Purpose Principles Ethical

Author:Ken Blanchard

“The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.”

Source: The Art Spirit

“Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?”

Firsts Saws Models Drawing

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

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