Henri Rousseau Quotes

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

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• You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Door
  • Foot

• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Control

• Managers are the most creative people in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • World
  • Creative

• Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • May
  • Remember

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
  • Well
  • Bath

• When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • School
  • Professional
  • Old

• I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Food

• It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Career
  • Greatness
  • Legend

• After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Gold

• They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Dad

• My animals are a really important part of my life.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Life
  • Important

• When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Business

• I have a really different touring life to most comedians because I go home every night to do the school run in the morning. So I'm not in hotels or living it up.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Yoga

• It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Movie

• Perhaps you have noticed that even in the slightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in different ways.

  

  Black Elk
  • Great
  • Men
  • Different

• Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Men
  • Women
  • Constitution

• I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • People
  • Reading
  • Pain

• I love to smile, even through pain.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • Pain
  • Smile

• No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

  

  William Penn
  • Life
  • Pain
  • inspirational

• The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

  

  Henri Rousseau
  • Suffers
  • Pain
  • Pleasure