Combination Quotes - Page 38

I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival.

Jack White

Motivation, People, Judging

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Combination is a soul of chess.

Alexander Alekhine

Soul, Chess

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The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

Eric Maisel

Artist, Growth, Crafts

Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

Cornelia Parker

Beauty, Loss, Want

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In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

John F. Carlson

Beautiful, Anxiety, Canvas

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A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

Jean Helion

Eye, Reality, Harmony

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An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

Charles E. Burchfield

Artist, Color, Play

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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

Norman Vincent Peale

Life, Laughter, Kindness

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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power, Politics, Chance

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Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word – you have refute and repudiate, and she combined them. A lot of times that will happen and people will confuse combinations of words. I remember a couple years ago John McCain mistakenly combined the words Vice President and Palin.

David Letterman

Couple, Years, People

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Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

Ishmael

Eye, Men, Doubt

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September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.

Emily Dickinson

Fun, Heart, Crow

Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.516, Harvard University Press

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[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Robert Moses

Cities, Taste, Architecture

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I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Long, Soul, Lasts

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Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Spiritual, Fun, Pain

Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards

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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

Karen Thompson Walker

Beautiful, Writing, Night

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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War, Fighting, Fate

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Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

Maria Popova

Motivational, Order, Ideas

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There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.

Thomas Reed

Race, Police, Humanity

Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

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In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

Frederick Lenz

Yoga, Fall, Meditation

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What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

Judith Martin

Women, Technology, Feelings

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Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Georges St-Pierre

Hard Work, Mma, Two

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The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters.

Rich Hall

Humorous, Chocolate, Popcorn

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They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

Scott Glenn

Kids, Thinking, Two

"Scott Glenn on serial killers, Alan Shepard, and almost ending up on Sons Of Anarchy". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. May 4, 2015.

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Someone told me recently, "You're like Oprah, man. People will tell you anything." I'll ask questions and I don't care. If you don't want to tell me, that's fine, but it's not going to be aggressive. I'm open, too. And no judgments. It's a combination of being willing to ask the questions, and being very open myself.

Chris Black

Men, People, Care

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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