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.

Kenneth Noland

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• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Past

• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Hated

• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Mind
  • Rules

• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mind
  • Love
  • For Her

• The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Chance

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• 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.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Doing

• 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.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Mind
  • Tour
  • Her

• 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.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Spirit

• Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Mind
  • Forever
  • Lazy

• 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.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Present

• 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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
  • Different
  • Mind

• Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Ability
  • Greatest
  • Mental

• I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

  

  Kevin Rose

• I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • People
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Mind
  • Focus