Earnest Quotes - Page 15

• In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.

  George Saunders

  Sentimental, Henchmen, Tendencies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To the parents, basically, of the dreamers, which was DAPA. I understand, of course, the concern that a lot of folks have had with the number of deportations. But there again, I believe that the president [Barack Obama] has made an earnest attempt to address those issues.

  Julian Castro

  Believe, Numbers, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Soul, Deities

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.132, Barbour Publishing

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• A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Jobs, Construction, Structure

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• The education of young people is narrowing. They cannot have the scope they used to have. They are being taught in high school by people earnest, still, but maybe less well-prepared than we would want them to be - but not because they are stupid or churlish.

  Frederick Busch

  Stupid, School, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.

  Julia Stiles

  People, Important, Acting

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Song, Honesty, Emotional

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed to give me validation to the idea that I could write validly in earnest about my life with (my) very feminine point of view, and also that I could unapologetically explore the bad traits of my character (which I find to be more interesting to explore than the good traits), as well as explore other concepts that interest me like private vs public personas, age gap relationships, etc.

  Marie Calloway

  Beautiful, Home, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.

  Denise Duhamel

  Fashion, People, Comedian

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.

  Brian Christian

  Needs, Inquiry, Want

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.

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• Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.79, Hendrickson Publishers

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• No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power.

  Natalie Dormer

  Thinking, Monsters, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

  Adrian Tomine

  Emotional, Stories, Way

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.

  Allan Kozinn

  Hands, Sound, Rebel

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• When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'

  Sara Paretsky

  Sweet, Book, Past

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• It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

  Douglas MacArthur

  Spiritual, Art, Character

  "Life's A Dive". Documentary, Short, Adventure, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Biographies, Stout, Persons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind." Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

  Geoff Dyer

  Writing, People, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.

  Julia Ward Howe

  War, Home, Mean

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.

  Jay Baruchel

  Crazy, Real, Successful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

  Ridley Scott

  Crazy, Hard Work, School

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

  William Watson

  Joy, Graves, Solemn

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• For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.

  Anthony Powell

  Taken, Lasts, Events

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, p.274, University of Chicago Press

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• A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Mean, Men

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.13

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