Bram van Velde Quotes

I don’t know if I've got close enough in two recent paintings he made to what I was really trying to achieve. But at least I've tried, I've made the attempt. I've done what I could. I've gone as far as my powers permitted.

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• To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

  

  Florence King
  • Good
  • Language
  • Achieve

• The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

  

  H. G. Wells
  • America
  • Achieve
  • Socialism

• Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • American
  • Achieve

• I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Peace
  • Question
  • Achieve

• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Success
  • Story
  • Achieve

• If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Different
  • Feel

• You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Way
  • You
  • Achieve

• I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Game
  • Know

• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Force
  • Patience
  • Achieve

• The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Fear
  • Small

• If you can't believe, you can't achieve.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Believe
  • Achieve

• But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Achieve
  • Rejection
  • Consistency

• I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Person
  • Decide
  • Attempt

• Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

  

  Gary Hume
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Picture

• Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • She
  • Small
  • Mom

• I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many outstanding legal successes, it definitely seemed to have oriented its thinking in the direction that the way to achieve was through the courts.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Achieve

• Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

  

  Doris Humphrey
  • Good
  • Words
  • Human

• Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.

  

  Burton Malkiel
  • Managers
  • Rates
  • Index funds

• Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Knowledge
  • Result
  • Point Of View

• The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.

  

  Alastair Mackenzie
  • Game
  • Advantage
  • Hole

• I don’t know if I've got close enough in two recent paintings he made to what I was really trying to achieve. But at least I've tried, I've made the attempt. I've done what I could. I've gone as far as my powers permitted.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Achieve
  • Powers
  • Paintings