Feelings Quotes - Page 17

• In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.

  Amy Sillman

  People, Representation

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• None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Book, Writing, Opposites

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• From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.

  John Galt

  Character, Scotland, Two

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• I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Fall, Thinking, Order

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience.

  Amy Plum

  Pain, Feelings Change, Knows

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• Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

  John P. Kotter

  Vision, Conviction, Happens

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.114, Harvard Business Review Press

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• To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.

  Lulu

  Attitude, Thinking, Feel Good

  "I'm through with having Botox, says pop diva Lulu". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 31, 2008.

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• Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Nuclear, World, Dozen

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 148), 1991.

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• When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless.But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy... I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters.

  Stanley Spencer

  Special, Quality, Sacred

  Sir Stanley Spencer, Fiona MacCarthy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City) (1997). “Stanley Spencer: An English Vision”, Yale University Press

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• I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

  John Braine

  Hate, Desire, Want

  John Braine (1980). “Room at the top”

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• Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Knowing, Mind, Looks

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• What we're going to do is use spring training as sort of a feeling-out process for Phil and Preston and our other outfielders. It gives us a lot of comfort to know that you've got a pure center fielder like Preston. But he's also so athletic, he can come in and play either corner and we'll feel very comfortable with it.

  Tim Purpura

  Spring, Play, Giving

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• What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There's no other direction at all. There's no other space in art. There's no other way in which you can find yourself except in somehow feeling it. And by holding to this feeling you can once again reach out and guess and miss - and sometimes hit.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Space, Missing

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• Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

  Jim Rowe

  Track, Example, Stubborn

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• Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?

  Gerald Brommer

  Artist, Ideas, Personality

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• Sometimes I had to force the overpainting of three corners almost without any feeling for shape, almost without inspiration, only to find my way back, to get out of this hell.

  Arnulf Rainer

  Inspiration, Frustration, Three

  Arnulf Rainer, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1989). “Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated”, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum

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• One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

  Georges Vantongerloo

  Order, Paint, Copies

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• There is no better feeling than the feeling that I have done something right. That feeling comes so rarely and is so fleeting that I can never really enjoy it. So in a way, it's not a good feeling at all.

  John S. Hall

  Fleeting, Done, Way

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes science; when he uses feelings for interpretation, it becomes poetry; when he takes a longer view of his observations, it becomes wisdom.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Wisdom, Men, Views

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• To trust yourself is to trust Silence. To trust your own heart is to trust the wisdom that is radiating and shining. All the thoughts, feelings, desires, and fears are just a superimposition that is called 'myself.' When all that disappears, for at least a moment, your Self shines forth. Radiantly, clear, and empty. Needing nothing, nourished, and overflowing.

  Eli Jaxon-Bear

  Heart, Self, Silence

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• And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.

  Julian Jaynes

  Loss, Self, Order

  "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, (Book I, Chapter 3, p. 79), 1976.

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• Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the act of protecting the weak, the helpless, the imprisoned and the desperate. Love is the hand raised in defence. You cannot love and keep your hands clean.

  Patricia Duncker

  Children, Passion, Caring

  Patricia Duncker (1999). “James Miranda Barry”

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• Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.

  David Richo

  Love Is, Thinking, People

  David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

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• I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Basketball, Long, Matter

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• I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

  Adam Rapp

  Girl, Dog, Years

  Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press

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