Constantin Brancusi Quotes

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Constantin Brancusi

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• If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Gay

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Important
  • Game

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
  • Help
  • Free

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Human
  • Understand
  • See

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • American
  • You
  • Care

• Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Want
  • You
  • Reach

• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Dreams

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • American
  • Change
  • Agent

• It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Reality
  • Sad

• If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Friends
  • Career
  • Choose

• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • Famous
  • Act

• We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Time
  • May
  • Strong

• People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Gift
  • Birthday

• A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Society
  • Fortune
  • First-generation

• We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Science
  • Patience

• Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more like a perspective, an angle of vision, a complicating factor, a questioning presence. I don't sit on the sidelines or pretend to objectivity; and I'm not afraid to stick my neck out or to be revealing and vulnerable.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Art
  • Character
  • Vision

• Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
  • Real
  • Art
  • Simplicity