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“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!”

Years Wells Results Progress Changed Painting One Day Ten Yellow Palette

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.”

Giving Years Sometimes Home Differences One Day Ten

Author:Anatole France

“Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.”

Source: Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland

“[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt to be more interested in phenomena like meteors than in the slow growth of a mighty tree. Wait ten years, and the politicians will one day wake up and say, 'Look who's here!”

Years Looks Courses Waiting Growth Poor Tree Politician One Day Ten Vote Wake Up Newspapers Spectacular Suffrage Meteors Slow Growth

Author:Margaret Case Harriman

“I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.”

Thinking Should Years Littles Sometimes Done Moments Wish Grows Bits Five One Day Ten Little Bit Let Me Evolve Live In The Moment

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I love everything. I don't see myself doing a really serious drama in the next five to ten years. I don't feel mature enough for that yet. But I'd like to make a pure action movie one day or maybe I can do a comedy again. I do like everything. But I don't feel ready for a musical or something like that. That's not my thing yet.”

Feels Years I Can Enough Action Next Can Do Five Comedy Serious Ready Drama One Day Pure Ten Musical Mature Action Movie

Author:Tommy Wirkola

“Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.”

Years Life Is Next Quality Streets Brother One Day Ten Years Ago Mysterious Crucial Homeless Next Day Brothers And Sisters Mysterious Things

Author:Cornel West

“I believe I've still got lots and lots to do. When I left Herman's Hermits in 1973, I said one day I'm gonna be in a Broadway show, and I thought it would be in 1974. Then, it took me ten years to do it, but I didn't ever quit.”

Years Believe Said Stills Shows Would Be Left I Believe One Day Ten Quitting Broadway Hermits Broadway Shows

Author:Peter Noone

“It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.”

Ifs Way Feels Worry Minutes Drink One Day Ten Okay One Day At A Time

Author:Malachy McCourt

“Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.”

Looks Littles I Can Waiting Nice Impossible Feet Wall One Day Ten Tables Finished Kitchen Proportion Dimensions Grain Wait For Him

Book:Endgame and Act Without Words

Source: Endgame and Act Without Words