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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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• 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
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  • Know
  • Theatre

• What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Why

• 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

• I will say in a few words why the anarchist doctrine is wrong. The anarchists say that the working class does not need a government: what is needs is to organize production. Government, they say, is a bourgeois invention, a bourgeois machine of compulsion, and the working class does not need to take governmental power. This is wrong from beginning to end.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Why
  • Power
  • Words

• I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

  

  Peter Weir
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• Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. Fermat's Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

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

  

  Pablo Picasso
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  • Others
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