People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.
LEONARDO DA VINCIThe function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
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People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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Time stays long enough for those who use it.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
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The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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