A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.
BEN SHAHNI’m a man of my word.
More Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
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He smelt like spring and felt like rain the kind that cooled earth on a hot summer day.
MIA WILD -
Cancer is such a frightening and emotional roller coaster. It’s a ride we all want to get off! My best advice is, find the ‘glue’ that will hold you together – whether it’s religion, family, friends, music.
BRENDA JONES -
I have a fear of being boring.
CHRISTIAN BALE -
Some go, some stay, but, darling, I wish you never go away.
ALEXANDER KANDOV -
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
I might not have been President if it hadn’t been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON -
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
ALAIN BADIOU -
The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
ADRIAN CRONAUER -
Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.
RICK RIORDAN -
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
LUCRETIUS -
So being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.
BARRY PTOLEMY -
Never give up, never ever give up.
JIM VALVANO -
Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.
BAN KI-MOON -
Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
SYLVIA PLATH -
It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
ALAIN BADIOU -
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON -
In the ring I can tell right away what his style is and I can adapt to it. I’m adjusting to life as a politician. It’s different in training but I can stay focused on both.
MANNY PACQUIAO -
All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.
KEVIN HART -
You’re not just making music for your personal use no more, just making music for your homies around you; you’re making music for people around the world. Kids in Alaska – like, you’re making music for everybody. When I make music, I just think on a larger scale.
TYGA -
Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn’t pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
SARAH PALIN -
I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
ALAN CUMMING -
I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
SHERYL SANDBERG -
I’ve lost count of my losses.
CELINE ZABAD -
Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
IRVIN D. YALOM