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“Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.”

Real Feelings Artist Social Failing Demand Achievement Creator Artistic Height Conform Destined Tailored

Author:Semir Zeki

“Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.”

Art Self Known Creativity Expression Height Reaching Censorship Great Art Self Expression Brake Unwelcome Self Censorship

Author:Semir Zeki

“A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.”

Fall Produce Weight Remains Raised Height Fallen Gravity

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.”

Men Exercise Crisis Height Life Crisis Mid Life Crisis

Author:Warren Farrell

“Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited about starting the next chapter of my career. I want to thank the employees, partners, and customers for their tireless commitment to the PlayStation brand and, of course, to our fans who have pushed us to new heights of innovation and entertainment over the past two decades. I leave PlayStation in a position of considerable strength and the future will only get brighter for PlayStation Nation.”

“It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.”

People Should Firsts Persons Seems Care Purpose Existence Impossible Proud Majority Cease Educated Height Meaning Of Life Discovering Great Heights

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.”

Said Born Greater Divine Infinite Bottom Height Greater Power

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.”

Men Has Beens Two Hands Lines Feet Middle Equal Distance Fingers Height Sole Crowns Straight Lines Two Hands Middle Finger

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

“Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.”

“I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.”

Believe Pain Faith Fall Loss Doubt Greater Trouble Sorrow Gains Rain Crosses Strive Height Bees Anguish Swarms Hives

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.”

Government Poor Pay Millions Products Waste Performances Dollars Height Incomplete Bonus Mismanagement Poor Performance Government Waste

Author:Jim Gibbons

“That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe.”

World Should Believe Night Grows This World Blame Depth Delight Height Grieving Mockery Sour Diana Sneer Splendour Woodland Huntress

Book:Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc

Source: Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc

“Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town”

People Hard Cities New York Towns Height Kicks Hard Times Friendly New York City Harlem Old New York

Author:Bob Dylan

“Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.”

“[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.”

Knows Firsts Hard Dream Bigs Would Be Careers Huge Green Pops Lists Singers Height Throat Cuba Lumps Professional Career

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state -- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological -- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!”

Littles Long Sin Greater Degrees Regard Dare Height Wickedness

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.”

America Cities Building Advantage Distance Height Shops Abstraction Ugliness American Cities

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.”

Men Long Water Depth Height Inner Strength Stem Lotuses

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune.”

“Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.”

Said Earth Spirit Spirituality Names Effects Ready Masters Argument Raises Practicals Height Offense Skeptic Down To Earth

Author:Anthony de Mello

“Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon.”

Ifs Limits Conscious Raised Despite Height Horizon Realist Pragmatic

Author:Nnamdi Azikiwe

“Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.”

“But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.”

Mind Said Ends Earth Speak Grows Causes Water Fire Air Grew Equal And Love Height Length One Time Strife Boundless Breadth Declaring Another Time

Author:Empedocles

“When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.”

Looks Christ Space Blood Land Dying Red Rivers Crosses Sight Finals Boat Height Swings Wet Nails Sailing Grey Palms Weeping Foul Grim Toss Berries Shiver Flooding Hangman Dank

Author:Alexander Blok

“Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.”

Stills Joy Christ Break Darkness Sky Glory Infinite Drawing Flight Height Thrones Bats Expanding Break Through Dusk Jehovah

Book:Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...

Source: Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...

“Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.”

Heaven Dying Eternal Eternity Rewards Depth Endless Variety Height Length Righteous Thieves Gift From God Triumphant Breadth

Book:Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

“(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.”

Spirit Mountain Method Clouds Height Climbing Brushes Rendering

Author:Marsden Hartley

“While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipline in fashion has long since evaporated; the idea of a single fashionable skirt length, or heel height, is incomprehensible. The definition of the fashionable has become so skimpy that it refers not to the mode of dress of everyday people--the clothes that have sufficiently caught the popular imagination to be worn in a widespread manner--but only to the styles that momentarily excite members of the fashion caravan.”

“In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.”

Soul Light Death Fall Memories Behinds Vision Forever Mountain Mercy Blind Enormous Height Slips Betray Glances Bleak Rendering Climbers

Author:Clark Ashton Smith

“I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.”

Chess Height Decadence

Author:Jennifer Shahade

“Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, shall seek no eternal refuge, it is they, among my disciples who shall reach the very topmost height! But they must be keen to progress.”

Gone Progress Eternal Independence Height Islands Refuge Disciple Resorts Dharma Recourse Hold Fast

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.”

Needs Principles Jokes Height Vulgarity Vulgarity Is Hilarity

Author:James Berardinelli

“If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy... Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's... Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.”

“Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Doe Stills Ends Hands Failing Sea Feet Rivers Strive Casts Fishes Rings Teeth Boat Height Lakes Fishing Bows Tails Compass Fling Bending Wands Salmon Nimble

Author:Michael Drayton

“I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Book Literature Late Height Articles Popularity Seventies

Author:Anthony Holden

“When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.”

War Together Young Literature Growing Up Issues Growing Particular Photograph Reputation Height Breakfast Princess Royal Royal Family

Author:Anthony Holden

“At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.”

Literature Periods Height

Author:Irwin Shaw

“When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.”

Writing Children Literature Fiction Four Needed Comfortable Legs Genre Height Chairs Length

Author:Mark Haddon

“It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

“It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.”

Men Enough Sports Animal Race Beats Fairs Horse Competition Athlete Height Yards Competing Race Horses

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.”

Eye Spirit Wish Atheism Dog Height Penetration Acumen Deuces

Author:Herman Melville

“In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.”

Atheism Claims Errors Positive Atheism Height Irresponsibility

Book:Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition

Source: Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition

“I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.”

Thinking Knows Needs Mean Age Able Technology Minutes Type Hundred Height Productive Technological Basics

Author:Larry Gelbart

“We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.”

Looks Known Vision Darkness Highest Depth Dare Height Fullness

Book:The Shaking of the Foundations

Source: The Shaking of the Foundations

“Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you.”

World Emotion Kindness Raises Very Good Height New World New Life Vibrations Lifting Good Thoughts Acts Of Kindness Good Words

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.”

Would Be Height Folly

Author:Edward Gorey

“People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.”

People Today Modern Slavery Trade Slave Height Modern Day Trafficking Slave Trade Modern Day Slavery

Author:Ross Kemp

“The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.”

Knows Needs Art Whole Eye Artist Speak Acting Half Steps Taught Late Height Charm Summit Always Wrong

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

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