Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
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Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
JAMES LEE BURKE Read and write all the time. Never stop sending out your stuff. If you're constantly writing and sen...
MEG CABOT if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL Trust me, dear, with the amount that you read, I guarantee that your eyes will never go bad.
LINDSEY RENEE BACKEN Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal p...
JOEL SALATIN If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sin...
JASON ALDEAN Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
JIM ROHN I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to ma...
MATT DILLON If we never make it, then don't ever to fake it...
sometimes accepting a failure will make you be an...
ABHIYANDA B. Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
JIM ROHN Anytime you read an article or a book,you are indirectly sowing seeds into your subconscious being,i...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'ROURKE Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to ...
DAVID M. OGILVY Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to ...
DAVID OGILVY When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it th...
WOODROW WILSON: Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
JAMES FREY Always be prepared one day the electricity will stop if your phone isn't charged well and you don't ...
DEYTH BANGER An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
WILLEM DE KOONING When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key...
WOODROW T. WILSON Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by...
BELLA LEWITZKY Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by...
SUSAN SONTAG If you cant take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.
, I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop in...
AJAY NAIDU You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it.
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EMMA BRYNSTEIN You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
PETER PORTER I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to ...
BRITTANY HOWARD People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff...
CHELSEA CAIN Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary ...
CARMEN AGRA DEEDY An artist is his own fault.
JOHN O'HARA You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...
MARIA CALLAS Never hide your fear because it will become your own God, hidden inside you.
SORIN CERIN Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it...
BUDDHA Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, ...
ANDY MURRAY You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt...
JOHN WATERS If an artist names something when you are drawing or painting, you alter your perception of it.
JIM GENOVESE Your day was never bad. If you think you had a bad day, check your mindset!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...
MARIA CALLAS Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
ALEX VAN HALEN Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies...
DAVID OGILVY Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell ...
DAVID OGILVY If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expec...
PAUL FUSSELL Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he h...
LUCY LIU Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just lik...
WILLIAM FAULKNER IF YOU CHOKE YOUR POTENTIAL BEFORE IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A POSSIBILITY YOU WILL NEVER REAC...
MO STEGALL Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate yo...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a ...
FERNANDO BOTERO You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I&...
CATE BLANCHETT To hear your own words read out loud like that the day after you wrote them was just heady stuff for...
DENNY DAVIS And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
NORMAN MACCAIG The advice they give you in the field is, if you're an artist get established as an artist first and...
JANE CHOC Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an ac...
LEO HOWARD People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on you...
LIAM PAYNE The Endgame book was an American soup, if everything can be predicted what's the purpose to read it?
DEYTH BANGER Never associate with negative people,be it your parents,siblings or spouse or else they will always ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
PAUL VALERY It's 'ow,' like, you stubbed your toe. 'Lee,' like Bruce Lee. Then, you add an &...
AULI'I CRAVALHO If you know your fundamentals, you will enjoy the game a lot more. Some of this stuff that I show yo...
ED SCHILLING Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I&...
EDDIE MARSAN More FUN. Less Stuff. More HAPPINESS.
LORRIN L. LEE That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you a...
JANETTE RALLISON If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
TORI AMOS Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game....
MICK COCHRANE Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
HENRY MILLER An artist is always alone / if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
HENRY MILLER If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!
E.J. PLOWS A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barb...
RICHARD DAWKINS Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innova...
BRE PETTIS When you are on top of your stuff, which on its own will secure you continuous increase
SUNDAY ADELAJA I know a lot of things about what people say about Judge Burke, and I know how he is. I get along wi...
JOHN BRYSON I wanted to do in boxing what Bruce Lee was able to do in karate. Lee was an artist, and, like him, ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD You will never lose a battle if you know your own situation as well as that of the enemy.
VIKRANT PARSAI One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will...
MAXWELL ANDERSON In my view, if you have good or bad technique, it doesn't matter. But you will survive if you ca...
VIRENDER SEHWAG The purpose of LIFE is simply to have FUN and be HAPPY.
LORRIN L. LEE If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
MALIK BENDJELLOUL James Lee Witt brings to the table a track record of success. He's got the franchise. He's got star ...
DONALD KETTL Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will no...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON In the root and stem of your own psyche, there is an accumulation of bad habits. If you cannot see t...
YUANSOU If your friend left you during your bad time, let him go. He never was your friend.
DEBASHISH PHILIP STEPHEN Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN It is easier to accumulate stuff than it is to eliminate them.
LORRIN L. LEE Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an...
DANNY PINTAURO I'm never able to forget the really bad stuff I went through!
GERARD WAY You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't a...
SHANNON L. ALDER Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
JAMES BARRIE Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
JOHN M. BARRIE
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EDMUND BURKE To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea...
EDMUND BURKE Good order is the foundation of all great things.
EDMUND BURKE The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
EDMUND BURKE When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in th...
EDMUND BURKE If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
EDMUND BURKE It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations d...
EDMUND BURKE Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
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