Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.

Samuel P. Huntington

Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.

Richard Francis Burton

How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.

Vera Wang

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Vincent Van Gogh

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

Ryan Reynolds

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Wayne Dyer

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

Rodney Dangerfield

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

Sarah Dessen

I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

Ryan Jones

I think the discipline in our school is wonderful.

Carl Ragasa

We've been winning everything lately and that's just a testament to the hard work and discipline these men possess.

Wayne Thiebaud

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Twyla Tharp

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

William Hague

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

William Eggleston

I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."

Wendell Phillips

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Wendell Berry

Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists. To know anything at all becomes a moral predicament. Aware that there is no such thing as a specialized effect, one becomes responsible for judgments as well as facts. Aware that as an agricultural scientist he had 'one great subject,' Sir Albert Howard could no longer ask, What can I do with what I know? without at the same time asking, How can I be responsible for what I know?

Yahya Jammeh

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

Wayne Thiebaud

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

Vinny Guadagnino

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Joni Mitchell

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

George Crabbe

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Henri Matisse

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

Frank Mullins

At first I thought you paint only when inspired, ... I'd do nothing, then I'd paint 10 paintings in a week. Then I'd fret.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.