The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.
It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.
The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
The habit of considering a man’s religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job is the modern form of persecution.
I don’t do magic. I turn your attention back to Friday night and the big-ass sword I was carrying. My job is to run and swing.
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.
An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.
I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.
Za ovaj svijet više vrijedi jedan dobar psovač, nego svi oni doktori teologije koji mole za mir i za kišu, jer više vrijedi uredna stolica nego najusrdnija molitva za zdravlje.
You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.
If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.
Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.
My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!
What’s next? The size of my cock?” “Hey, even pencils can get the job done—I’ve heard the moaning from your room to prove it.
There is an easy way of finding the job to be done today, just look around your environment; take note of the places that need cleaning and the places that need decoration; do one at a time!
Science is a form of arrogance control.
