"Paint the essential character of things."

-- Camille Pissarro

#Character Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Paint Quotes

“I think polling is the best way of gauging public opinion - doing something that's independent, that's quantitative, that doesn't give just the loud voices about how things are going; or doesn't give so called experts the notion that they know what public opinion is. I think that's what makes public opinion polling pretty important. Qualitative assessments of public opinion; going out and talking to people and understanding the nuance to what's behind the numbers. I think it's awfully important as well.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Art indeed is long, but life is short.”

Source : Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.29, Pearson Education
“When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.328, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.”
“Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.”

Source : Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Joseph Le Roy Hayden (1917). “Steinmetz Electrical Engineering Library: Engineering mathematics; a series of lectures delivered at Union college (3rd ed. 1917)”
“For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human essence of the character.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.”

Source : James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press
“What does the universe want from us? It wants us to be alive. It wants us to fully partake in life. The universe thrives on the music we create.”

Source : Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.20

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