Paul Gauguin Quotes

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• I miss baseball.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Baseball
  • Miss

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Hands

• We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • motivation
  • Act
  • Talk

• Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Life
  • Work
  • Change

• There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Black
  • Enough
  • Latin

• I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Years

• I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe

• You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Helping

• There has been a meeting and discussions are still in progress. The talks have been taking place between the two sides here and in the United States.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Progress
  • United States
  • Discussions

• It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Gold
  • Glitter

• No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Walking

• In my work as an actor, I have been given even greater insights and have been guided towards empathy and a consciousness of those who are less fortunate.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Actor
  • Empathy
  • Insights

• All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

  

  Edward Zigler
  • IQ

• The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

  

  William Osler
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Science

• Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Reason
  • Should
  • Masters