"Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline."

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Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.198

Edwin Percy Whipple

#Happiness Quotes #Discipline Quotes #People Quotes

“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.”
“The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.”

Source : Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”
“Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.”
“I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.”

Source : "Woman in design: Annabelle Selldorf". Elle Decor Interview, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.
“Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.”
“My eye, though, is set on Miley [Cyrus].”
“You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.”
“I like things that involve skill and I love anything that's a bit of a challenge”

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