Kenneth Noland Quotes
You see things out of the corner of your mind or the corner of your eye that affect you just as strongly as things that you focus on, if not more so.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
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I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.
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Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
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Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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My church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, puts Jesus Christ at the focal point. It's the focus of everything. What I really hope is that people of faith in this country can come together in this election to ensure we elect a president who's going to do what's required to protect this basic principle of our country.
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Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.
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Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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You see things out of the corner of your mind or the corner of your eye that affect you just as strongly as things that you focus on, if not more so.
