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“Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.”

Mind Long Art Accepting Masters Perseverance Noble Profession Enthusiasm Obedience Guidance Reverence

Author:Cennino Cennini

“I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.”

Ifs Writing Years Long Enough Seems Four Thirds Finished Opera

Author:Virgil Thomson

“How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.”

Long Hands Wanted Periods Technique Thrown Again And Again Back And Forth Back Again Blocked

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.”

Should Long Said Eye Happiness Form Night White Wonderful Hair Bed Snow His Eyes Dry Tall Every Night Long Ago Bent Slender Jolly Gait

Author:George Arnold

“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

“Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.”

Long Hard Wife Months Bottles Hiding Suicidal Whiskey Drunkenness Alibis

Author:James Taylor

“How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!”

Long Night Enjoy Thee Enjoyment Long Nights

Book:The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies

Source: The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies

“I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.”

May Long Has Beens Easy Doors Fronts Long Time Draws Standing Window Rhythm Shock Conception Elbows Counterparts Begin Again Front Doors

Author:Sean William Scott

“I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.”

Mind Firsts Long Seems Style Footsteps

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty”

Long Beautiful Talent Admire Acknowledge Display Modesty Veils Attainment

Book:The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life

“When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.”

Long Lasts Company Products Engineers Manufacturing Accounting New Products Controllers

Author:Chin-Ning Chu

“If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.”

Ifs Long Choices Wish Half Millions Minutes Directors Series Committed Print Seconds Thrilling Celluloid

Author:Ben Kingsley

“In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom”

Long Helping Term Wealth Creation Factors Luxury Long Term Asian Tourists

Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.”

Way Long Art Novel Taste Standards Art Is Innovation Critics Conviction Significant One Way Firm Provocation Standards Set

Author:Leo Steinberg

“Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.”

Source: The Country and the City

“Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.”

Long Hard Done Film Hard Work Directors Determination Resolve Glamour Premieres Film Directors

Author:D. W. Griffith

“everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.”

Want Writing Trying Humans Long Happens Humanity Hours Four Communication Draws Garden Letters Twenties Dresses Express Yourself

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.”

Ifs Long Enough Towns Clean Guarantees Council Hiring If I Stay

Author:Bobby Knight

“For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.”

Long Has Beens Law Causes My Own Evolution Eternal Constitution Association Latent Unchangeable Predestined

Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus

“Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury.”

Long Real Care Pain Found Dues Necks Injury Relief Lasting Chiropractic Long Lasting Chiropractic Care

Author:James Arness

“Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him.”

Wells Mean Littles Long Play Cities Careers Team Fans Fields Honor Long Time League Nfl My Time Relevant Stellar Broncos

Author:Pat Bowlen

“What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.”

Ifs Long Said Done Able Dies Landscape Repeats Embarrassed Adequate Dinosaurs

Author:Werner Herzog

“Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.”

Men Long Doe Evil Deeds Good Man Good Deeds Happy Day

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.”

Long Family Wake Up Posts Royal Lamps Saudis Royal Family

Author:Ken Livingstone

“We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.”

People Ifs Way Feels Long Made Hard Eye Groups Hard Work Involved Long Time Wide Long Time Ago Anticipate Diligence Diligent Announcements Eyes Wide Open

Author:Troy Aikman

“I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.”

Long Done Bigs Careers Records Air India Rainbow Long Careers

Author:Terry Riley

“With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.”

Kind Long Real Eye Turns Race Concern Blind Statistics Blindness Blind Eyes

Author:Richard Ney

“You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Long Matter Happens Together Past Common Luck Common Sense

Author:Richard Petty

“Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.”

Long Stills Body Fall Three Energy Stars Millions Fire Minutes Events Planets Tiny Bombs Atoms Fierce Long Ago Our Planet Fractions Unstable Lumps Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb

Author:James Lovelock

“It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.”

People Long Waiting Process Difficult Achieve Fragrance Waiting Around Boudoir

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.”

Long Different Animal Disease West South Climate Species Spread East Zone Adopted Mammals Axes Livestock North Africa Different Animals

Author:Jared Diamond

“Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.”

People Thinking Should Long Waiting Levels Subjects Economics University

Author:Robert Duvall

“Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about enforcement measures, sanctions, et cetera, we are on the right track. But we need to accelerate the process.”

Needs Long Stills Process Talking Track Hopeful Enforcement Diplomacy Sanctions Not Talking Accelerate Right Track

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“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

“It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.”

Long Stills Realizing Hair Long Time Good Things Italian Chicks Surf Sydney Surfer

Author:Natalie Imbruglia

“So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.”

Thinking Feels Long Real Possibility Ignorance Wind Blow Ships Being Real

Book:Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation

Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation

“It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.”

Long Doe Artist Time Long Time Paint

Author:Kate Jackson

“The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.”

Want Feels Long Running Remember Our Lives Letting Go Illusion Hardest Boat Saving Agreement Good Life Long Runs Hardest Thing Passengers Unspoken Rocking The Boat

Author:Kenny Loggins

“All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.”

People Years Long Stills Long Time Seven Seven Years

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.”

Long Betrayal Long Ago Betrayed Gutenberg

Author:Chris Marker

“Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.”

Should Long Facts Action Christian Form Cheeks Nevertheless Bribe Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Gary North

“I believe that no matter how many mistakes weve made; how badly weve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected weve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.”

Believe Long Made Matter Opportunity I Believe Mistake Greatness Ambition Worn Steadfast Screwed Up Worn Out Dejected

Book:Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life

Source: Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life

“I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.”

Years Wells Long Made Lasts Talking Known Player Fields Couple Opposition Well Known My Thoughts Abusive

Author:Ricky Ponting

“I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.”

Way Long Important Choices

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.”

Long Art

Author:Spider Robinson

“I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.”

Should Believe Long I Believe Social Term Conditions Security Accounts Workers Long Term Social Security Deficit Reduction

Author:Cliff Stearns

“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.”

Long Self Memories Eternal Intellectual Mere Factors Chains Ancestor Ancestry Allegory Chained

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.”

Long Form Strong Movement Victory These Days Sincere Sympathy Elude Elude Us Elude You

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.”

Long Strong Fine Cost Fundamentals Dollars Borrowing

Author:Lawrence Summers

“What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.”

Knows Long Has Beens Religion Secret Dangerous Danger Worship Developing Republic Extremism Garage Basements Mosques Secret Places Clandestine Places Of Worship

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

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