Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
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• Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
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• With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
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• My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Life
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• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Smile

• I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Shoes

• the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Together
  • Black
  • Growing

• I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
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• With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Hand

• Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Ignorance
  • Planet
  • Damage

• Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Remember
  • Fighting
  • Lives

• You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Alone
  • Sympathy

• People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Fun
  • Culture

• If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Happens
  • Agriculture
  • Sustainability

• By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Wish
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• That (home run) was a backbreaker. It just deflated us.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Home
  • Deflated
  • Backbreaker

• For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Littles
  • Happens
  • Impulse