Pablo Picasso Quotes

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

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• Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Hot
  • Iron
  • Brainy

• Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Done
  • Why
  • Talk

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Live
  • Women
  • Why

• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Win

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Why
  • Want
  • Me

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • See
  • Others

• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Way
  • Others

• I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Why
  • High
  • Kind

• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Economic
  • Policy
  • Republicans

• My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

  

  K. Flay
  • Serious
  • Died
  • Inheritance

• Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Why
  • Know
  • Theatre

• We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Destiny
  • Choose
  • Brainy

• Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Why
  • Yourself
  • Movies

• No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Religion
  • Others
  • Promotion

• I get to teach my daughter what I've learned. I don't want her to feel she has to be a certain way to impress society. If she wants to spit or go play some ball, I'll be so proud, because that's who I am, and that's a real person.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Real
  • She
  • Society

• People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • People
  • Long
  • Age

• I do not admire myself as a person. My successes do not override my shortcomings.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Admire
  • Successes
  • Override

• I've long been interested in how technology mediates desire and the way that our phones, an extension of ourselves, foster intimate interactions that feel so personal and deep, despite being relayed through a machine.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Long
  • Desire
  • Technology

• I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Never

• Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Others
  • Brainy