Pablo Picasso Quotes

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

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• I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Reading

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.

  

  Flume
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Start

• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Confident

• I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Sound
  • Freak

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Impact

• I was raised doing martial arts.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Doing
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts

• Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Job

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Will

• I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Change
  • Thought

• Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Light
  • Nobody
  • Italy

• He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Wisdom
  • Glass
  • Crystal

• If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Energy
  • Myself
  • Limit

• You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Focus
  • Things
  • Figure Out

• Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Good
  • Space
  • Water

• I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.

  

  Michael Caine
  • World
  • Car
  • Poor

• I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Ideas

• Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.

  

  Caprice Crane
  • Love
  • Decision
  • Ideas

• What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Ideas
  • Interests
  • Spite