"It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision."

-- Nelson Shanks

#Exercise Quotes #Oil Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.8, Open Road Media
“If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.”
“Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.”
“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”
“Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.”
“The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.”
“Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.”

Source : James E. Talmage (2012). “Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, p.69, Lulu.com

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