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character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
perfection body units
The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit
perfection
I expect perfection from myself. Bryce Harper
perfection perfect doe
Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect. Carolina Herrera
perfection would-be receiving
It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted. Jane Austen
perfection want enough
There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it. Jascha Heifetz
perfection technique invisible
If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible. Alan Chadwick
perfection timing divine
I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should. Cheryl Richardson
perfection matter pounds
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. Charles Lamb
perfection religion world
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. Edmund Burke
simplicity quality enthusiasm
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm. Agnes Repplier
simplicity approach
Simplicity of approach is always best. Charlie Chaplin
simplicity achieve difficult
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
simplicity mind states
Simplicity is a state of mind. Charles Wagner
simplicity action tendencies
Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness. Brian Weiss
simplicity complexity grows
Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity. Brian Eno
simplicity complexity optimal
The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity David Allen
simplicity consistency complicated
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. Jared Diamond
simplicity poverty
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. Alan Watts