Strokes Quotes - Page 22

• All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

  Criss Jami

  Support, Leader, Ego

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.72, Criss Jami

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• Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

  Michael Bassey

  Good Friend, Luck, Way

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• When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Attitude, Book, Blow

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• Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Knowing, Water, Depth

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• Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Messages, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

  Paul Klee

  Lasts, Harmony, Achieve

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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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• The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

  Norman Tebbit

  Running, England, Bowling

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• Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

  Philip Guston

  Believe, Mean, Want

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Lying, Erotic

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• It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

  Robert Bateman

  Skills, Paint

  "ROBERT BATEMAN: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. October 15, 2012.

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• At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Powerful, Sleep, Long

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Design, Black

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• A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Change, Sleep, Destiny

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• Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.

  Donald Barthelme

  Girl, Children, Night

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Numbers, May, Cubes

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.192

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• Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

  A. W. Tillinghast

  Home, Golf, Play

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• It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

  Washington Irving

  Prayer, Draws, Handle

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• Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

  Mark Teixeira

  Running, Home, Two

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• A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

  Laozi

  Writing, Athlete, Games

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• Marching diverts man's thoughts. Marching kills thoughts. Marching makes an end of individuality. Marching is the indispensable magic stroke performed in order to accustom people to a mechanical, quasi-ritualistic activity until it becomes second nature.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Order, People

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• I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.

  Jack White

  Hurt, Home, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Dare, Caress, Humans

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• Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

  Todd Rundgren

  Waiting, Luck, World

  Song: Drive, Album: The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect

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