Sticks Quotes - Page 11

• The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

  William James

  Learning, Men, Acquisition

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.

  Bill Watterson

  Character, Ideas, Two

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• It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiration, Writing, Giving

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• If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

  Clint Eastwood

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Thinking

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• If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Night, Silence

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• When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Clouds, Sky

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• Something of calumny always sticks.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Calumny

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• Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Calumny Is, Calumny

  "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act 3, Scene 13, 1775.

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• The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Hands, Walking Sticks, Effort

  Thorstein Veblen (2011). “Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.184, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.

  Forest Whitaker

  Art, Writing, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Tables, Height, Too Much

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• Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.

  Enrico Fermi

  Epic, People, Feelings

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• What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now. The constant pattern, however, is that most Christians either move both backwards (religion as nostalgia) or into the distant future (religion as carrot on the stick) and consistently avoid where everything really happens and matters—the present moment.

  Richard Rohr

  Faith, Christian, Real

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• Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Odds, Secret, Lightning

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• Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, People, Bored

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• If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.

  Susan Cain

  Gun, Depth, Force

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Needs, Tests, Pressure

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• If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

  Kiki Smith

  Determination, Care, Working It

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• If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

  Edward Kennedy

  Perseverance, Real, Opportunity

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• There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

  Cornelia Parker

  Country, Anomalies, Thumbs

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• Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

  Jacob Epstein

  Art, Murder

  Telegram sent to the Warden of New College, Oxford, on hearing of Kruscher's derogatory remarks on his 'Lazarus' in the College chapel

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• We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Criticism, Deserve

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• Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

  Richard Schmid

  Simple, Exotic, Way

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• You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.

  Richard Schmid

  Cutting, Yield, Light

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• There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Patriotic, Training

  Speech at Chicago, 3 April 1903, in 'New York Times' 4 April 1903

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