Wells Quotes - Page 39

• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Procrastination, Trying

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

  Alexander Pope

  Teenage, Teenage Love, Crime

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 6

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• This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help. "We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Nov 26, 2014

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• No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.

  Thomas Malthus

  Class, Eugenics, Euthanasia

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.49, Penguin UK

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• Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.

  Mike Gray

  Soccer, People, Inspirational Soccer

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• Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

  Nigel Dennis

  Photography, Games, Done

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• The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Games, Chess, Way

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• Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

  Alexander Pushkin

  Play, Wife, Letters

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• For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.

  Bent Larsen

  Sports, Art, Order

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• And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Law, Two

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• Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

  "Master Interview; Jerry Uelsmann". Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, www.shutterbug.com. September 1, 2007.

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• More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, Communication, Men

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• "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Writing, Thinking

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• The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.

  Patrice Evra

  Football, Problem

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• Sometimes he does the brilliant things really well.

  Lee Sharpe

  Football, Doe, Brilliant

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• I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

  Clinton Morrison

  Football, Team, Three

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• Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

  Bobby Robson

  Football, Games, Two

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• The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Government, Law, Foundation

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.47, FastPencil Inc

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• One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Success, Play, Opponents

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• Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  White, Errors, Analysis

  "The bright side of chess". Book by Irving Chernev (p. 114), 1952.

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• I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Winning, Games, Chess Game

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• Well done to the lady lineswoman.

  Chris Kamara

  Football, Done, Well Done

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• I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't. There's that guy who scores goals - Taarabt. Routledge I've heard of. All bloody nice guys but I don't mix with them so I don't know them well. I don't go in the dressing room. They can walk out of the showers and I feel I've got an inferiority complex.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Football, Nice, Team

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• I wouldn't say it was lucky. We executed the play well. We should have had another one (TD). Obviously, if you do what's right on and off the field, I think the Lord steps in and plays a part in it. Magic happens

  Austin Collie

  Football, Thinking, Should Have

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• As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, House, Answers

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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