I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is...
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Edward Carpenter
Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
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Ngaio Marsh
There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.
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Wayne Chirisa
Nowadays, nobody can teach you a useful thing about life, since models are outdated one moment after.
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Marino Baccarini
More Quotes By Harry S. Truman
But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn...
The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.
'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.
