"The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature."

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John Ruskin

#Doe Quotes #Sculpture Quotes #Common Quotes

“Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.”
“Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?”
“For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.”
“There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.”
“Khodorkovsky is richest man. And he lost everything when Putin arrested him and took his company away, and essentially took his company away, sold it, and gave it to other people, and enriched them. So, he's a complicated figure as an opposition leader, and people admire him - he was in prison, and he was very brave, and he's written some good things since then, and so on. But at the end of the day, people see him as being part of the corrupt system that has done so much to undermine the Russian system since the 1990s, and I don't know that he can ever be a really popular leader.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive things. You observe or are told something, you interpret it, and only then do you have a reaction at the feeling level. The point is that feeling is preceded by perception, and all of us are capable of controlling our interpretation [the associations and assumptions] of what we see. If we can control our interpretation, then it logically follows that we can exercise some control over our feelings as well.”
“My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.”
“Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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