Paul Klee Quotes
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.
Quotes to Explore
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
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Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.
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If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
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I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
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If you can't believe, you can't achieve.
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I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.
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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.
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We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.
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'Firestarter' was like that. Keith heard the track as an instrumental and thought it was wicked and said he couldn't wait to dance to it on stage. He sat down there for a while and then said 'I would love to put some vocals on this'. We put the actual words down in a London studio, and I can't explain the feeling me and Keith got that night, driving home listening to the tape, playing it over and over again. I knew then it was something original, that I had achieved something.
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A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.
