Study Quotes - Page 28

• He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

  Horace

  Sea, Names, Wings

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 387-88, Carmina, IV, 2, 1, 1922.

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• There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

  Winston Churchill

  Exercise, Next Day, Next

  Winston Churchill (1942). “Thoughts and Adventures”

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• The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Years, Way

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• The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Latin, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Beautiful, Summer, Winter

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• I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Glasses, Two

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.168, A&C Black

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• I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

  Mark Twain

  Hands, Soul, Portraits

  Mark Twain (1933). “Mark Twain's works”

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• I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Japan, Cities

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.205, Ballantine Books

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• By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

  Ovid

  Art, Faithful, Gentle

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• Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

  Samuel Johnson

  Solitude, Too Much, States

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.185

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• Study the science of art and the art of science.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art

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• We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Example, Half, Care

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.321

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• It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.

  Joseph Hall

  Giving, Littles, Abundance

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.58

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• I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

  Christine Lagarde

  Thinking, Diversity, Growth

  "IMF chief Christine Lagarde on removing hurdles from a strong global economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2014.

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• The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

  William Godwin

  Boys, Men, Independence

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• All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.

  Howard Pyle

  Summer, Air, Years

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• What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.

  Norman Mailer

  Athlete, Competition, Novelists

  "Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

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• When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Feelings, Typical

  Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

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• Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Morality, Social, Structure

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Possibility, Come Up

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.

  Claude Monet

  Masters, Attributes, Said

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.

  Claude Monet

  Home, Bigs, Big Things

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

  Charles Kettering

  Teaching, Engineering, Years

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• The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.

  Thomas Merton

  Song, Cells, Community

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• But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Believe, Symphony

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.17, Church Publishing, Inc.

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