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There is a supply for every demand.
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. ...
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to...
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. Thi...
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later...
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to t...
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Giving opens the way to receiving.
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to...
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. Thi...
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn ...
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her ...
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Life well spent is long.
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The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the ...
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The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as ar...
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
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The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution ...
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigo...
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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing...
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I ...
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
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The way to know life is to love many things.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by se...
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The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and a...
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
I have wasted my hours.
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How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they o...
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The Medici created and destroyed me.
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Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisph...
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For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know i...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in ...
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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, co...
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The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it refle...
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and t...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire...
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Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
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The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, i...
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue...
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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
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There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller tha...
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People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to t...
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
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I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the ...
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It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture...
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I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.
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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmos...
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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one pl...
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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his ...
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
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I start a picture and I finish it.
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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect w...
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Learning never exhausts the mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass...
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Conscience is a man's compass.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker...
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I...
FLORENCE WELCH
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
FLORENCE KING
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself bette...
FLORENCE KELLEY
The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, th...
FLORENCE KELLEY
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions wh...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bi...
FLORENCE KING
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is ...
TYLER FLORENCE
Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To...
FLORENCE WELCH
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she...
FLORENCE KELLEY
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I...
TYLER FLORENCE
At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. ...
FLORENCE WELCH
I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, m...
FLORENCE WELCH
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas ...
FLORENCE WELCH
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or ...
TYLER FLORENCE
My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the s...
FLORENCE WELCH
It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find ama...
TYLER FLORENCE
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. An...
FLORENCE WELCH
'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, waili...
FLORENCE WELCH
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys w...
FLORENCE KING
'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of t...
FLORENCE WELCH
I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started g...
FLORENCE WELCH
Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out o...
TYLER FLORENCE
Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream t...
FLORENCE AUBENAS
I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.
FLORENCE AUBENAS
Obviously, you have no other proof but your word. So I hope they are going to believe her, as they b...
FLORENCE AUBENAS
She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else.
FLORENCE AUBENAS
Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holi...
FLORENCE ALLSHORN
First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurant...
TYLER FLORENCE
Books, I think, are what magic smells like.
MILLIE FLORENCE
I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in s...
FLORENCE WELCH