Betty Edwards Quotes

As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.

Betty Edwards

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• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Learned
  • Manager

• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
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  • Game

• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Movies

• A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Experience

• As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Thinking
  • Engineering

• I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Family

• Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Black

• My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Done

• When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.

  

  Alice Dellal
  • Thinking

• I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

  

  Chrisette Michele Payne
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I have this fantasy that in future negotiations over climate change - instead of going into that room and saying, 'I'm defending Chinese interests,' or 'I'm defending Australian interests' - there will also be an identity inside of each of the negotiators thinking, 'I'm also defending human interests.'

  

  David Christian
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Identity

• Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put them in the newspaper. But they're good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Support

• Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

  

  Andre Geim
  • Thinking
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Life
  • Design
  • Souls

• I'm proud to be Parisian, proud to be a BANLIEUSARD. Which means a man from the suburbs, from the streets, from the outskirt.

  

  Fabio Gatti
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Proud

• A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Live
  • Person
  • Starts

• But there is no use in trying to engraft an opposite nature on one’s own. What I am, that I must be, except as God changes me into His own image. And everything brings me back to that, as my supreme desire. I see more and more that I must be myself what I want my children to be and that I cannot make myself over even for their sakes. This must be His work, and I wonder that it goes on so slowly, that all the disappointments, sorrows, sicknesses I have passed through have left me still selfish, still full of imperfections!

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • God
  • Children
  • Nature

• As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.

  

  Betty Edwards
  • Thinking
  • Learned
  • Merge