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• In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Writing, Secret, Trying

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• Beware of clichés. Not just the ­clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought - even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are ­clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.

  Geoff Dyer

  War, Writing, Expectations

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Imagination, Quality

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• The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Organization, Giving

  "Cartier-Bresson's classic is back - but his Decisive Moment has passed" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2014.

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• Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You say: "He lost his life" or "my life," as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that? Can you sense that you already are That?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stars, Animal, People

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.53, New World Library

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• The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Communication, Play

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

  Harry S. Truman

  Glasses, America, Profound

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1966). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Giving, Sound, Able

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• Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Adventure, Self

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.580, Sahitya Akademi

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• Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

  Ralph Nader

  Humanity, Moral, Highest

  Ralph Nader (2011). “"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"”, p.223, Seven Stories Press

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• Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wonderful, Capable

  "10 Ways To Stay Spiritually Connected" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out

  Gregg Braden

  Our World, Odds, Doors

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• Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, which is traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of its opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that 'women's work' is light and easy. Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid 'ancillary' jobs, such as cleaning, caring and catering, all traditionally considered to be 'women's work'.

  Eliza Bennett

  Jobs, Hard Work, Caring

  "This Artist Painstakingly Sews Her Incredible Art Into The Palms Of Her Own Hands" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I came up with my own expression. I like to make it hail. Yeah. That's when you throw change on sluts.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Yeah

  "Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art.

  James Dean

  Art, Order, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

  Rodney Mullen

  Sports, Art, Skateboarding

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• Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

  Slash

  Guitar, Self, Trying

  "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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• Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Singing, Individual

  Interview with Jody Denberg, www.austinchronicle.com. September 11, 1998.

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• I don't really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression. I think you can wear whatever you want!

  Ariana Grande

  Fashion, Believe, Thinking

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• You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Goal, Humanity

  Oprah Winfrey's Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.

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• It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in their own country, which represents the fullest expression of those virtues anywhere on the globe.

  Mona Charen

  Country, Tolerance, Liberty

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• Do not wait for enough time or money to accomplish what you think you have in mind. Work with what you have right now. Work with the people around you right now…. Do not wait for what you assume is the appropriate, stress-free environment in which to generate expression…. Do not wait till you are sure that you know what you are doing…. What you do now, what you make of your present circumstances, will determine the quality and scope of your future endeavors.

  Anne Bogart

  Stress, Thinking, People

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• Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

  Noah Lukeman

  Simplicity, Clarity, Enough

  Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You know that expression, 'wild horses couldn't drag me away'? Well, let me tell you, that was obviously made by someone who's never been on the other side of a lead rope when a wild horse starts running.

  Terri Farley

  Running, Horse, Sides

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• But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

  John McCain

  Believe, Long, Campaigns

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