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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• 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

• 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

• I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• I can't always live my life for everybody else.

  

  Aubrey O'Day
  • Life
  • Live

• So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

  

  David Strathairn
  • Money
  • Energy
  • Positive

• It's hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Happy

• Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Time
  • Air
  • Missing

• Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Pain

• Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fighting

• You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

  

  Phil McGleno
  • Chaos
  • Serenity

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

  

  Henri Rousseau
  • Suffers
  • Pain
  • Pleasure