Paul Gauguin Quotes

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

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• A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Poetry

• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Know
  • Annoyed
  • Rage

• visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.

  

  Ovid

• Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Death

• It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars;We've been the same way for years.We need to change.

  

  Waylon Jennings

• Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

  

  Irena Sendler

• The 'control mechanism' view of culture begins with the assumption that human thought is basically both social and public - that its natural habitat is the house yard, the market place, and the town square.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • House
  • Culture
  • Control

• Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Writing
  • Art
  • America

• The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • History

• Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Road

• There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Children
  • Night
  • Magic

• Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.

  

  Jay Samit

• You have to assign specific tasks to everybody so you don't bump into each other and start arguing about silliness.

  

  Marcus Lemonis

• I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Life

• To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • Country
  • True

• At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

  

  Keith Moon The Who
  • World
  • Heart
  • Rock

• Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • City
  • Powerful
  • Pride

• What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Dream
  • Failing
  • Dare

• Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Long
  • Why
  • Thoughts

• And I say in the book, 'Hard Measures,' that actually they were pretty wimpy if you really - if the American people actually knew what these techniques where, they would say, what are you talking about?

  

  Jose Rodriguez
  • People
  • Book
  • American

• Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

  

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger
  • Time

• Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

  

  Paul Gauguin
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