Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.

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• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Past

• I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • World
  • Disney
  • Favorite

• I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Never
  • Forget

• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Parent

• When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Women
  • Done

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Laugh

• Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Reality
  • Performance

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Son
  • Island

• The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Together
  • Effort

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Learning
  • Christmas
  • Spanish

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• I always have to be writing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Always

• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• I inherited honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness as did my three brothers and sisters.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Faith

• Joy is like restless day; but peace divineLike quiet night;Lead me, O Lord, - till perfect Day shall shineThrough Peace to Light.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Night
  • Light
  • Peace

• Lights of the world, and stars of human race.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Light
  • Humans

• One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • View
  • Meat
  • Humane

• Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • People

• A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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