William Shenstone Quotes

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

William Shenstone

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• Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
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• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
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• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

  

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• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  

  Lance Armstrong
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• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
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• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
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• Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
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• I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
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  • Work
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• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
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• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
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• I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Vision
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• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  

  Pat Riley
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• If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

  

  Raymond Chandler
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• There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Good
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• Weisinger, a couple of years ago, made up the following story: 'Isaac Asimov was asked how Superman could fly faster than the speed of light, which was supposed to be an absolute limit. To this Asimov replied, 'That the speed of light is a limit is a theory; that Superman can travel faster than light is a fact.''

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Virtue

• Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Beauty
  • Simplicity
  • Variety