“I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.” IfsWantIdeasEnoughParentTeachStudyDevoted Author:Brit Marling
“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” MenMindI CanMatterWholeTogetherScienceForceResultsBehindsExistenceVirtueStudyClearMinutesResearchConsciousIntelligentAssumingWhole LifeAtomsDevotedParticlesVibrationsSolar System Author:Max Planck
“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.” IfsSoulMatterPhilosophyUseBodyLightEyeSpiritualSleepStudyShadowVicesCommunicateIntellectSubstanceContemplationRaysSpiritual LifeDevotedAwakenedAngelic Book:The Book of the Courtier Source: The Book of the Courtier
“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.” IfsMenFeltAttitudeStudyMinutesHe ManBoundsAfghanistanAestheticDevotedFifteenAdvertisementsCultivation Author:Burton Rascoe
“We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.” ArtGovernmentNextLiteratureChurchStudyMankindObjectsDutyFineWorshipCreatorDevotedExtensionsFine ArtsTrue Worship Author:Pope Leo X
“We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems” YearsProblemStudyMankindIllusionFinalsConclusionFortyDevotedShedFuture Of Mankind Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.” PeopleMeanChildrenHelpingSchoolMotherFatherVoiceStudyTownsFinancialFantasticDozenOperaDevotedMumHelping PeopleScholarshipProgrammesGreat Voice Author:Salma Hayek
“I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die.” DreamCareArtistDiesAttentionStudyAliveFansHonestMaterialsDon't CareCraftsObsessedDevotedBeing An ArtistMaterial Things Author:Lady Gaga
“Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.” WritingHoursMorningStudyFourGet UpDevotedEvery MorningUp Early Author:Elie Wiesel