Quotes 181 till 200 of 259.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.
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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
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The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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