All Quotes

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
‐‐ Ralph Richardson

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.
‐‐ Tyne Daly

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
‐‐ Emil Nolde

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
‐‐ Diogenes

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
‐‐ Tony Snow

The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.
‐‐ Julia Child

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.
‐‐ David Petraeus

The art of communication is the language of leadership.
‐‐ James Humes

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
‐‐ Ed Koch

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
‐‐ Richard Branson

The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.
‐‐ Kaskade

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
‐‐ David Hilbert

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
‐‐ Henry Hazlitt

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
‐‐ Paracelsus

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
‐‐ Pablo Casals

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
‐‐ Tony Blair

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
‐‐ Emmet Fox

The art of life is to show your hand.
‐‐ E. V. Lucas

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.
‐‐ Ellen Key

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
‐‐ Charles Morgan

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
‐‐ Cesare Pavese

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
‐‐ Epicurus

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
‐‐ Richard Ford

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bishop

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
‐‐ Albert Ellis

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
‐‐ Paul Klee

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
‐‐ Voltaire

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
‐‐ Thomas Sydenham

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Annaud

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
‐‐ Ellen Key

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
‐‐ Don Marquis

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
‐‐ Morihei Ueshiba

The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.
‐‐ Elizabeth Holmes

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
‐‐ Hans Hofmann

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
‐‐ Konrad Adenauer

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.
‐‐ James P. Cannon