Revealing Quotes - Page 9

• The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Inspiration, Journey

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

  Michio Kushi

  Dog, Cat, Men

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 4), December 1994.

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• Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

  William Monahan

  People, Trying, Looks

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• What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now, Now explores myriad pathways of connection, the ways desire, longing, and imaginative possibility brush up against the everyday, revealing a keen, fiercely compassionate intelligence-a sensibility so finely attuned and so clearly in love with the world that you would follow it almost anywhere.

  Rick Hilles

  Joy, Everyday, Desire

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• Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Past, Years, Skills

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• I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Dream, Fall, Answers

  "Fragments of a Journal". Book by Eugène Ionesco, 1966.

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• No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.

  Albert Goldman

  Men, Personality, Drug

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• At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Reality, Way, Painting

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• Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

  Scott Stossel

  Fighting, Missing, Alive

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• People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.

  David Mamet

  People, Trying, Defense

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• Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

  John Ralston Saul

  Reality, Desire, Disease

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about how you’re presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it’s all coming from you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Dna, Self

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

  William J. Clinton

  Way, Pressure, Weakness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.

  David Fontana

  Struggle, Practice, Ideas

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• Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.

  Vince Aletti

  Artist, Doors, Choices

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• The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.

  Daniele Vare

  Art, Pride, Chinese

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• Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Way, Photographer, Speak

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• One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Real, Issues, Conflict

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• That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.

  Derek Ridgers

  Photography, Eye, Wonderful

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Purpose, Life Is, All Things

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 14, 2016

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• I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.

  Emmy Rossum

  Fashion, Style, Silhouettes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.

  Paul Theroux

  Drama, Eye, Opportunity

  Paul Theroux (2012). “The Lower River”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Self, Understanding, Mind

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• When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Reality, Discipline, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Feb 12, 2017

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• It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that.

  Toni Braxton

  Sexy, Gone, Honest

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