Mordicai Gerstein Quotes

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.

Mordicai Gerstein

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• A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Mother
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Play

• I really wanted to be a writer.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Wanted
  • Writer
  • Really

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Day
  • Exercise
  • Fight

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Work
  • Family

• Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Up

• Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Discipline

• The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

  

  Lou Brock

• Marty Schottenheimer knows how to win, and that's what Redskins fans demand in a coach.

  

  Daniel Snyder

• Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government what I think is a disastrous strategy which will impact on some of the most vulnerable and poorest people within our society.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • People
  • Society

• All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Life
  • Time
  • Space

• Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Work

• I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

  

  Anne Tyler
  • Wonder

• How did they pick John Doe?

  

  John Dos Passos

• One has never said better how much 'humanism', 'normality', 'quality of life' were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Life
  • Quality

• The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Truth
  • Funny

• Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

  

  David Tudor

• If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.

  

  Mordicai Gerstein
  • Painting
  • Knows
  • Comfortable