Signatures Quotes

• Art is the signature of civilizations.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Art, Acceptance

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women". Book by Rosalie Maggio, 1992.

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• Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe even the poet does not know, but he has been touched by something from the beyond.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Doe, Poet

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• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

  Billy Wilder

  Trust, Mistake, Failure

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Generations, Way

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• I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.

  Georges Braque

  Differences, Moments, Should

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.

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• I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

  Georges Braque

  Personality, Should, Painter

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.

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• To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name.

  Liu Dan

  Names, Use, Mediums

  "Conversation with Liu Dan". Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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• A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Moving

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

  Robert Genn

  Thinking, Names, Might

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• I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Insanity, Suffering, Annoying People

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• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Choice is a signature of our species.

  Diane Ackerman

  Choices, Species

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.254, Vintage

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• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Determination

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Forget, Online, Petitions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.

  Leonard Wolf

  Song, Artist, Unique

  Naomi Wolf, Leonard Wolf (2006). “The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See”, Simon and Schuster

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• ...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

  Mark Helprin

  Perfect, Joy, Balance

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Writing, Land, Faces

  "Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology".

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• Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

  Christopher John Farley

  Real, Writing, Sky

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• The arts are the signature of a nation.

  Joan Mondale

  Art, Nations

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• The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

  James C. Collins

  Greatness, Focus, Mediocrity

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• Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

  James C. Collins

  Greatness, Perfection, Not Perfect

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• Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

  Abdul Kalam

  Autographs

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• The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

  James C. Collins

  Mediocrity, Inconsistency

  "The office maverick" by Bill Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

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