“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.” KnowsYearsHumansEndsSchoolWinningAbilityEducationStudyFiguresStudentsPrizeCopies Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.” WayKindI CanStudyFiguresNormalExpertsStatisticsBe Kind Author:Lady Gaga
“My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.” WantShouldLooksWarSportsParentStudyFiguresFootballProfessionGuidanceZoneSubstitutesEnteringPaganAssertionPrescriptionsRemakesWar ZonesBrash Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.” WayNeedsI CanBookIdeasWholeArtistStudyFiguresKeysIndustryFitOkayHollywoodEdgesI RealizedBunchSoftwarePublishingMusic IndustryDevelopersBook Publishing Author:Trip Hawkins
“Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.” MadePlayTogetherLiteratureRolesStudyFiguresWho I AmRealizationKeyboardsTappingPublic Figures Author:David Guterson
“There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb.” GivingEarthJesusHeavenResultsExistenceStudyAtheismModernFiguresNegativeDiedHistoricalFinalsCriticalPositive AtheismTheologyKingdomsLiberalismKingdom Of GodMessiahKingdom Of HeavenRationalismConsecrationNazareth Book:The Quest of the Historical Jesus Source: The Quest of the Historical Jesus
“If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.” IfsMenHumansArtWholeEarthLife IsAnimalStudyWiseFiguresPolicyMoonDrawsAspectSeasonsIntelligentDistancePlantWideGrassToo ShortBladesLife Is Too ShortCountrysidePhilosophicBlades Of GrassJapanese ArtBismarck Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases.” ThinkingNeedsTryingChildrenRealProblemBigsCausesNumbersMistakeStudyFiguresKeysDiseaseEvidenceWideRangeAutismVaccinesBig ProblemsPolio Author:David Oshinsky
“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.” IfsWellsPersonsAbleAnimalPracticeStudyFailingOne ThingFiguresObjectsParticularGeniusHonorPainterLandscapeBranchesAcademy Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Always look up! Every time I step out-side, that's the first thing I do. Ask your-self, "what star is that?", grab a star chart and try to figure it out. That is basically how I started. Learn your planets and learn how to distinguish them from the stars. Study star charts even during the day and that night, go and see if you can find them. You may surprise yourself!” IfsTryingFirstsLooksMaySelfNightAsksStarsSidesStepsStudyFiguresPlanetsSurpriseLook Up Author:Will Young
“When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the toys apart and studying how they moved, I was able to figure out how to hide a table leaf, what type of contraption I'd need to slide it under the table. I'm a really visual learner.” NeedsFirstsAbleStudyFiguresBuildingTypeTablesMovedVisualsToysLeafsFurnitureSlidesLearners Author:Jeremiah Brent
“'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood” PeopleWayFactsInterestStudyStageFiguresDevelopmentSpeechConceptsMethodMisunderstoodRetentionFigures Of Speech Author:Huangbo Xiyun
“For me her image, the triptych, became a study of the weight the black male figure carries, given the fact that they are targeted by the police, and are constantly in danger of being misread in public spaces.” FactsGivenBlackSpaceStudyFiguresDangerWeightPoliceMalesCarrieBlack Males Author:Claudia Rankine
“When you study our greatest artists, you will find that they give us a key to understand how to deal with each other, and that our bloodlines are intertwined. It's not hyphenated America. That there is an America, and it is expressed in those arts. It gives us a key to figure out how to negotiate with each other, and it tells us actually who we are.” GivingArtAmericaArtistDealsStudyFiguresKeysWho We AreIntertwinedBloodline Author:Wynton Marsalis
“I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.” ThinkingGivingMindMaySeemsAbleBeautifulFacesOpportunityWatchesStudyGraceAirFiguresPleaseOffersFollowingAttractionPainterJudgementAcquirePossessedDeceivingSimilarityBeautiful Face Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“You don't necessarily have to go to film school to be a brilliant film maker. If you are a good listener and you study life, and you find that story that is buried within each and every one of us, and you figure out a way to bring that out. And sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean money or winning the lottery.” IfsWayMeanSometimesStoriesSchoolFilmWinningStudyFiguresBrilliantMakersBuriedListenersLotteryFilm SchoolGood ListenerWinning The LotteryStudy Life Author:Tony Todd