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“Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Long Hard Reason Answers Opinion Heard Ears Faults Critics Patient Impression Mistaken Censure

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.”

Ifs Way Long Doe Home Wish Safe Delight Wander Temples Temperance

Book:Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq

Source: Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq

“A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.”

Ifs Long Acting Moral Teach Comedy Serious Please Scene

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.”

Ifs Men Want Should Littles Long Stills Song Wish Gold Score Muster Mint

Book:POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Source: POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY

“It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.”

Ifs Believe Long Done Life Is Grows Easy Clear Limits Evident Great Work

Author:Alfred Adler

“Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.”

Ifs Heart Long Dream Song Language Simple White Bones Ambiguity Loveliness Agitate

Book:West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems

Source: West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems

“All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.”

Ifs Long Art Religion Holy Art Is Miserable

Author:Robertson Davies

“If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.”

Ifs Long Running Beautiful Perfect Be Good Etc Long Runs Orderly

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.”

Ifs Long Advice Emotional Needed Anger Outburst Emotional Outbursts

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.”

Ifs Believe Long Belief Ambition Distance Runners If You Believe Gears Long Distance Distance Runner

Author:Sam Abell

“I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.”

Ifs Long Song Sex Long Time Medicine Load Getting Old Long Time Ago Cabinets Pistols Philip Sex Pistols

Author:Damien Hirst

“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”

Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Long Art Enough Form Used Culture Fields First Time Appreciation Make Sense Modernism

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.”

Ifs Long Real Sometimes Running Hurt Work Wonderful Honest Willing Committed Disappointment Work Out Long Runs Spouse Honest With Yourself Wonderful Experience

Author:Hillary Clinton

“If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.”

Ifs Long Suffering Wish Wife Heard Lecturer Long Suffering

Author:Samuel Eliot Morison

“If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.”

Ifs World Want Long Waiting Long Time Patience Response Patient Idle Be Patient

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.”

Ifs Long Imitation Cezanne

Author:Arshile Gorky

“How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.”

Ifs Giving Should Long Moments Past Worry Should Have Forgotten Present Moment Long Ago Over The Past Skip Agonizing

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.”

Ifs Long War Fighting Doubt Long Time Army Superiors Destroyed Artillery Infantry Demoralized

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.”

People Ifs Thinking Long War Lasts Fighting Kings Conflict

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.”

Ifs Men Love Long I Can Spirit Desire Love Is Company Liberty Gone One Thing Beats Wings Slave Bounds Telling The Truth Inspirational Love Mastery Farewell One Love Long Love Gone Love

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.”

Ifs Men Want Long Done Quality Noses Work Done Good Quality Quality Work

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.”

Ifs Firsts Long News Fairs Ideals Journalism Reports Accurate Unbiased Good Journalism

Author:Walter Cronkite

“What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.”

Ifs Thinking Should Children Long I Can Book Hard Asks Be Good Ask Me Children's Books

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.”

Ifs Heart Long Trust Goes On Breaths Intention Storm Fixed Steers Tempest Steadfast Stunned Fervent Never Fear

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.”

“If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.”

Ifs Life Long War Done Running Next Long Time Busy Great Things Apples Milk Long Time Ago Microsoft Macintosh

Author:Steve Jobs

“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Writing Wells Long Real Hard Found Space Novel Novelists Things To Do Desperate Symptoms Discouraged Hard Things

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.”

“You all know I have terminal cancer—and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar—if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving May Long Made I Can Activity Stress Trade Cancer Spread Made It Legacy Fuel Love Life Activist Afar Terminal Oregon Trade Offs Terminal Cancer

Author:Tom McCall

“There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.”

Ifs Men Long Use Would Be Time Courses Evil Principles Break Clear Isolated Associates

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Dreams last so long Even after you're gone I know you love me And soon you will see You were meant for me And I was meant for you Go about my business, I'm doing fine Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not much to say Hearts are broken every day I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead I try to tell myself it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore tonight”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Heart Long Stories Dream Lasts Song Lines Half Gone Alive Broken Fine Tonight I Know You Love Me

Author:Jewel

“Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we shall have gone a long way to solving our economic problems.”

Ifs Way Looks Long Has Beens Problem Past Gone Economic Identity Hatred Finished Bitterness Long Way Old Days Kenya Animosity Economic Problems Looking To The Future

Author:Jomo Kenyatta

“We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.”

Ifs Men World Long Natural Ability Responsibility Genius Conservative Treated Preserves Almighty Natural World Adversaries Sustaining

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Needs Feels Persons Long Found Work Danger Goes On Safe Formulas Better Ways Deteriorating Found The One

Book:Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

“I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.”

People Ifs May Long Running Certain Business Class Amount Higher Cost Approach Add Believer Long Runs Cheap Things

Book:Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

Source: Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

“The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.”

Ifs Giving Wells Long Would Be Millions Thousand Taxes Giving Up Six Hundred Vote Glad Income Passing Passings Ems Senate Cents Income Tax

Author:Will Rogers

“After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.”

Ifs World Mind Long I Can Home Seems America Enjoy Return Comfort Europe Peace Of Mind Portions

Author:John James Audubon

“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Long Art Matter Motivational Creating Draws Paint Cooks Engines Cultivating Collages

Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.”

Ifs Inspirational Trying Mind Long Facts

Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

“If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.”

Ifs Knows Wells Long Self God Desire Hate Realizing Hate You Knowing God Hate God

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're powerful enough you can even determine whom you will meet and whom you will avoid long before you meet them.”

Ifs Long Enough Powerful Power Determine

Author:Frederick Lenz

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