Michelangelo Quotes

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

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• Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Will
  • Agenda

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • Very
  • I Can

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Remember
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Life
  • Time

• I was the worst, most sickly kid of all – 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Up

• The Hore-Laval proposals were not so frightfully different from those put forward by the Committee of Five. But the latter were of respectable parentage: and the Paris ones were too much like the off-the-stage arrangements of nineteenth-century diplomacy.

  

  Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Different
  • Paris

• You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Lost

• While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Knowledge
  • Literature
  • Chinese

• I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Up
  • Past
  • Memories

• Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • People

• I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Time
  • Age
  • Technology

• There's a general feeling if you take the cut block out of the game, then you're going to significantly impact the run game.

  

  Jeff Fisher
  • Game
  • Feeling

• Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Important
  • Pretty

• One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

  

  Marco Arment

• No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

  

  Leon Jaworski
  • Law
  • Absolutely

• Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Angel
  • Names

• Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.

  

  Alison Goodman
  • Fight
  • Rabbit
  • Cornered

• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Angel
  • Marble
  • Carved