Ida Pauline Rolf Quotes
God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
Quotes to Explore
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
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The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
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The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
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I don't avoid trends. You do definitely want to be on-trend, but I do like to pick and choose the things that I'm seeing. And not every trend will work on every client of mine.
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I feel like I pull inspiration, in general, from how I feel on a day.
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God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
