Isaac Watts Quotes

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

Isaac Watts

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• My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Best

• My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Country
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Long

• The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Destiny
  • Interests
  • Significance

• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Knowledge
  • Simple
  • Focus

• While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Lost
  • Space
  • Cutting

• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Positive

• Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • Good
  • Past

• I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Ideas

• If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

  

  John Aniston
  • Technology
  • Clicks

• Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Wife
  • Husband

• Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Desire
  • Injure
  • Eradication

• Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Succeed

• My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Mind
  • Comedy
  • Worry

• Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Enjoyment
  • Wicked
  • Deceived