Michelangelo Quotes

Genius is infinite painstaking.

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Theatre

• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Impossible
  • Even
  • Zero

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Movie
  • Superhero
  • Martial Arts

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Control
  • Company
  • Founder

• If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

  

  Walter Map
  • Me
  • Die
  • Drinking

• I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Summer
  • First
  • Kiss

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

  

  Flume
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Lighting

• Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • World
  • Society
  • Darkness

• The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Destiny
  • Nation
  • Others

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Think
  • Present
  • Person

• Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Genius
  • Complex

• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  

  Isaac Mayer Wise
  • Genius
  • Intention
  • Inconsiderate

• And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home. When he asks for colleges to educate ministers, tell him you must educate woman, that she may do away with the necessity of ministers, so that they may be able to go to some useful employment.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Educate
  • Purposes
  • Employment

• I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Attention
  • Decision
  • Mistake

• One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Support
  • Vision

• Genius is infinite painstaking.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Genius
  • Painstaking