Degrees Quotes - Page 15

Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

William Shenstone

Distance, Offensive, Objects

William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.65

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I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.

Joe Locke

Creativity, Leader, Band

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There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

John Ruskin

Latin, Power, Drawing

John Ruskin (1859). “The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners”, p.4

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You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

Brian Tracy

Achievement, Quality, Use

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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

Charles Darwin

Eye, Theory Of Evolution, Creation Science

Charles Darwin (1861). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.167

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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

David Hockney

Education, People, Brain

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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

David Hockney

Education, Certificates

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I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

Ben Stein

Stars, Real, Men

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An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

Robert Motherwell

Art, Reality, Assumption

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Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and when we can get it - whether it is or is not administered to us in the most commodious manner, in the most proper place, or at the exact minute when we would wish to have it.

Joshua Reynolds

Forever, Wish, Chance

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1891). “Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses”

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It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He was both the first and the greatest master of this art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted.

Joshua Reynolds

Art, Character, Eye

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1850). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy”, p.72

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One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

Nathaniel Branden

Flower, Self, Love Relationship

Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin

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Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.

Nathaniel Branden

Average, Community, Vision

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Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

Joanna Baillie

Sports, Ease, Busy

Joanna Baillie (1976). “The dramatic and poetical works”, p.806, Georg Olms Verlag

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If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.

Rex Harrison

Animal, Language, Ifs

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It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Ken Livingstone

Art, People, Criticism

"Art attack - mayor and sculptor in war of words over Mandela statue", www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.

Daniel Goleman

Years, Practice, Routine

Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

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Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Real, Ideas, Giving

B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Christopher Love

Comfort, Looks, Affliction

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It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Character, Self, Heaven

Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124

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Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

Roy Baumeister

Educational, Pregnancy, School

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Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.

Walter J. Phillips

Style, Development, Care

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The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.

Asa Hutchinson

Issues, Giving, Challenges

"Transcript: House Judiciary Committee meeting", www.cnn.com. October 5, 1998.

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The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

Robert Genn

Education, Fall, Thinking

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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Men, Land, Community

Speech, Osawatomie, Kan., 31 Aug. 1910

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