William Hogarth Quotes

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

William Hogarth

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• 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'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • High
  • Girl

• I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Mind
  • Confidence
  • Period

• I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Day
  • Exercise
  • Over

• I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • House
  • Faith

• 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

• At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thinking

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

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Impossible
  • Even
  • Zero

• The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
  • Think
  • Food

• 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

• You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Knows
  • Able
  • Wells

• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sports
  • Draw
  • Personalities

• No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Helping
  • Accomplish

• People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those competing visions and to impose consequences as a result. When you think of it that way, it's a little bit startling, because we want to believe that there is one truth and, therefore, one justice, whereas, if you have practiced law as long as I have, you realize that there is actually a range of acceptable outcomes.

  

  Scott Turow
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you've worked a room really well, it makes you feel great. TV is a bit more difficult; there are more factors that can screw it up along the way.

  

  Nina Conti
  • Control
  • Satisfaction
  • Gig

• I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

  

  William Hogarth
  • Knows
  • Genius
  • Labor