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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.


Michelangelo Buonarroti

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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO You can gain the mastery over skill if only you will invest time to work hard.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.
MICHELANGELO It took a lot of work with the conditioning coach, and I feel as strong as ever, and I'm going to co...
GUILLERMO CORIA Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
GRETA GARBO All my hard work has paid off. I knew I could do it, and I finally did it.
SHANNON DIEDERICHS They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working peo...
JODY AULT Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
KIP WINGER If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves
LANE KIRKLAND If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Wh...
JACK MA All I wanted was for the people of Spokane to have a voice, ... My three months of — I call it my '...
SHANNON SULLIVAN When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will ...
TAYA KYLE I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
FERID MURAD What it really said to me is how hard the people at our school work, ... All of our employees who wo...
DR. SEUSS I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itse...
C.S. LEWIS It doesn't matter what i think, how i feel, or where i see going. It only matter how you seem to tak...
IJIRASHIIJACK This shows how hard we work. We're a small school with only 1,500 to 1,600 students, so it shows how...
MARC NESCI I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I h...
DEBBIE MEYER If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
GRETA GARBO this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhilir...
PRISCILLA WARNER She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I no...
BRITTANY HOWARD You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you ...
KAREN GILLAN If spiritual people are so fascinate with consciousness then why do they work so hard at being uncon...
CHRISTOPHER ZZENN LOREN People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me s...
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t...
MARGARET MCMULLAN Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promi...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The best artist has that thought alone
Which is contained within the marble shell;
The sculp...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI This comes from dangling from the ceiling
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Genius is eternal patience.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and ...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in set...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more th...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Patience is eternal genius
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
n...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself co...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
with peace you force all the restless work to en...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI My theory is it doesn't have an effect if you train hard while you're trying to gain weight. If you'...
BRYAN THOMAS I don't believe in luck or in hard work without the so called "work smart". It's not all about how y...
JAYSON ZABATE You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list...
THOMAS HARRIS I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
WALT HANDELSMAN I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it.
ROBERT BLACK I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.
BILLY CRUDUP I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it...
AIMEE CARTER Michelangelo told [his biographer] Condivi what to write, ... Michelangelo was aware of posterity, s...
ROSS KING my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
NICK HORNBY Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me ...
FAY WRAY I knew she'd pull hard for the first two miles or so, and I'd have to catch her at the end. I knew I...
KAIT COOK Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural insti...
FANNIE FLAGG It's wonderful. I come every year to gain insight on what to do for my child.
KAREN FULTON I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I t...
RICHARD M. NIXON They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
HUGH LAURIE I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
HA JIN I would really love to go to Thailand as so many people have told me how wonderful it is.
PIXIE LOTT I wouldn't mind even if it's the only thing people remember me for. It was a privilege just to be th...
GEORGE CHAKIRIS He was mine, and I was his. If I knew anything at all, it was that only those two things mattered.
JAMIE MCGUIRE He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem...
JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, ...
LINDA ELLERBEE 0-10 didn't seem too significant at that point. You know people that knew someone (in the mines), so...
BILL LILLY My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how ...
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get en...
MANOJ BHARGAVA In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a...
GERARD DEPARDIEU It was a little bit of a motivation, but I never let it get to me, ... I knew if I work hard, good t...
JOSE CONTRERAS It's so wonderful to see how people still care. It means so much to the guys over there.
KATHY WERNER It's a great feeling to be a part of this. Going down there and doing so well is really significant,...
SANDRA CAMACHO It takes hard work to be good. It's a lot easier to tell somebody to work hard if they know how it f...
BRITANI PITTULLO If only I knew what I know
I'd make it a point to say so.
THE FRAY I just knew that whenever we got in sync, we would be successful. We just have to stay humble and co...
AUSTIN BROOKS He's the master, ... It's admirable. I watch him with my mouth open and think, 'How does he do it?' ...
STEPHEN COLBERT It's so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back.
ALEX MORGAN I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up t...
GAYLE FORMAN I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that...
BILL GOLD We both wrestled hard. But I knew if I kept moving and got (his) wrist, I could get out. We work on ...
BILLY CHAMBERLAIN I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew how im...
EMILIANO ARAGON See, it has nothing to do with how hard you work at all. Life has to do with which ass you kiss.
BLINK 182 People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The onl...
CARRIE FISHER

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Which is contained within the marble shell;
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
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while the oppression and the shame still last;
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself co...
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with peace you force all the restless work to en...
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MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern so...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
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