Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.
If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the second world war and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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