Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

You do ill if you praise, and still worse if you reprove in a matter you do not understand.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Career
  • Best

• I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Try
  • Week
  • Pressure

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Time
  • First
  • Programming

• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Working
  • Police
  • Corrupt

• The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Small
  • Team

• If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Dark
  • Vision

• I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Feeling
  • Small
  • Achievement

• What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Home
  • Mexican

• I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Always
  • Material
  • Abundance

• It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Sense

• And my father and mother strengthened me in this my first impression, saying in my presence, I was intended for some great purpose, which they had always thought from certain marks on my head and breast.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• Ah what avails the sceptered race,Ah what the form divine!

  

  Walter Savage Landor

• Is the flow of time something real, or might our sense of time passing be just an illusion that hides the fact that what is real is only a vast collection of memories?

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time
  • Real
  • Memories

• Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Law

• Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

  

  Charles Studd
  • Friends
  • True
  • Death

• My original intention was to use it just for improvised, soundscape-y stuff, but I ended up falling in love with it. So I put it on a lot of the songs. It's not anything that I'm proficient on, but in the studio, if I spend a day working it, I can shimmy my way around.

  

  Chad VanGaalen
  • Songs
  • Intention
  • Put

• In any type of institution whatsoever, when a self-directed, imaginative, energetic, or creative member is being consistently frustrated and sabotaged rather than encouraged and supported, what will turn out to be true one hundred percent of the time, regardless of whether the disrupters are supervisors, subordinates, or peers, is that the person at the very top of that institution is a peace-monger.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Regardless
  • Imaginative
  • Supported

• Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Attention
  • Ignore

• Just look at Andy Roddick. He has the biggest serve on the men's tour and he's not the No. 1 because other parts of his game are not so good. I think it's more important to have the desire and the other parts of your game.

  

  Elena Dementieva
  • Good
  • Game
  • Desire

• One genius is about all a house will hold.

  

  Isabel Paterson
  • House
  • Genius
  • Hold

• You do ill if you praise, and still worse if you reprove in a matter you do not understand.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci