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“Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else, even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter, that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.”

Writing Believe Wells May Moments Helping Problem Hands Asks Huge Waste Letters Everyday Details Manage Intimate Mail Single Mom Envelopes Bundles Implicit Personal Problems

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.”

Men Wells States Evil Causes He Man Habit Disease Chiefs Indulge

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.”

Firsts Wells Art Filled Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism

Author:Robert Motherwell

“To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.”

Thinking Wells Looks I Can Bigs Bits Can Do Dance

Author:Paul McCartney

“Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.”

Wells Memories Models Draws Visuals

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.”

Wells Children Left Deals Loneliness Well Being Left Alone Frail Youngest Child

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.”

People Wells Looks May Depends Democrat Committees Nominations Judiciary

Author:Barbara Boxer

“We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .”

Wells Long Stills Months Seven Productions Heavy Complicated Amusement Amusing Premieres Seven Months

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude.”

Wells Two Facts Able Accepting Security Solitude Constant Instinct Seeking Horrible Two Things Communion Grasping

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.”

Thinking Wells Children Self Sides My Own Known Creative Ego Responsible Secure Well Known Creative Work

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.”

People Way Want Writing Wells Artist Hate Sound Universal I Hate Impact Critics Strive Triggers Dictionary Deep Meaning

Author:Damien Hirst

“All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.”

Wells Asks Rooms Rain Shortage

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them.”

Knows Wells Doubt Sky Anxiety No Doubt Execution Neglected

Book:Constable: paintings, drawings and watercolours

Source: Constable: paintings, drawings and watercolours

“It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.”

Wells Done Hands Understanding Taken Impossible Understood Reluctant Well Done

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.”

Wells Eye Attention Nice Observation Observing

Book:The Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy

Source: The Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy

“The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination... but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed.”

Giving Wells Art Ideas Form Used Imagination Particular Reader Details Determined Painter Canvas Obliged

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.”

Wells Danger Masters Admiration Imitation Imitating

Book:Cassatt and her circle: selected letters

Source: Cassatt and her circle: selected letters

“A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.”

Men Wells May Enjoy Lines Study Fields Ready Judging Research Access Related Trunks

Author:James Fitzjames Stephen

“Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.”

Firsts Wells Alive Theater

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.”

Wells Law Social Levels Innovation Well Being Minimum Tolerable Social Innovation

Author:Paul Dickson

“I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.”

Knows Feels Wells Might Impossible

Book:Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

“As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.”

Men World Feels Mind Wells Fighting Effort Millions Fire Progress One Day Corners Burning Our World Lit Kindles Untamed

Author:George W. Bush

“The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.”

Wells Ideas Wish Memories Answers Masters Models Drawing Impression Painter Acquire Facility

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.”

Wells Long Praise Addresses Drag

Author:Phineas Fletcher

“Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.”

Thinking Wells Success Lines Success And Failure Dividing Success Failure

Author:Richard Branson

“The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.”

Wells Book Process Products Lovers Speech Excellence Superiors Unusual Aesthetic Vehicle Utility Printed Obsolete Antiques Insisting Book Lover

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.”

“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.”

Should Wells Littles Ends Character Might Novel Seeing Reader Ordinary Abnormal Present Day Ordinary Life Day Life Reluctance Main Characters Abnormality Arresting

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.”

Knows Men Wells Enough Facts Home Running Jobs Past Certain Know How Taken Broken Men And Women Woods Decades Magazines Assumption Shops Articles Transfers Suggesting

Author:Robert Briffault

“If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.”

Ifs Men Believe Humans Wells May Done Progress Conditions Revolution Tradition Human Condition

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.”

Knows Writing Wells Used Endure Frustration Humiliation Stamina

Author:Philip Roth

“A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.”

Men Wells Littles Deals Ill Wit Instance Satire

Book:The wisdom of being religious

Source: The wisdom of being religious

“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

Wells Children Kids Language Grows Parent Growing Up Example Skills Violent Lenient Language Skills

Author:Steven Pinker

“Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.”

Should Wells Kind Beauty Charm Be Kind

Author:George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

“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

“There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.”

Thinking Wells May Country Helping Hands Night House White Policy Normal Crisis Campaigns Tendencies Broke White House Als Foreign Policy Gore

Author:David Gergen

“The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.”

Men Wells Looks May Form Artist Evil Love Is Tragedy Cures Well Being Wholeness Clay Surgeons Claws God Is Love Obstinacy

Author:Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

“In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.”

Thinking Wells May Cowardice Critical Thinking Unanimity

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.”

Ifs Way Mind Wells Play Hands Streets Childhood Example Bears Beats Baseball Police Prison Dictatorship Adolescence Repression

Author:Daniel Ortega

“There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.”

Wells Class Morality Ten Ethics Eight Commandments Exam Ten Commandments Morality And Ethics

Author:Mordecai Richler

“Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.”

Knows Wells Reflection Happy Life

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and work out a solution for self-governance that would give all three groups a share in political power. Simultaneously, the UN should arrange for shipments of food and medicine, from the United States and other countries, as well as engineers to help rebuild the country.”

“Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.”

Needs Wells Self Results Self Esteem Esteem

Author:Martin Seligman

“There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?”

Wells Doe Home Asks Aspect Flow Notion

Author:Martin Seligman

“If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.”

Ifs Knows Wells Persons Sometimes Causes Sides Class Bigger Nurture Bullied Lots Of Friends Being Bullied Cafeteria Bigger Person

Author:Lady Gaga

“Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.”

Men Wells Vision He Man Transformation Revolutionary Accustomed Lenses

Book:The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

“Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.”

Men Way Wells Movement Mark Scales Shoulders Generous Gestures Caves Sweeping Large Scale

Author:Stan Smith

“If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.”

Ifs Mind Wells May Play Form Used Results Creative Stupid Surprise Vehicle Discovering Conventional Pedantic

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.”

Wells Different Done Work Painting Labor Manuals Manual Labor

Author:George Grosz

“I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.”

Thinking Wells Hard Actors Watches Theater Painful Bad Movies Painful Experiences

Author:Zoe Kazan