The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will be pushback, resistance, and… — Joanna Lohman Copy Share Image
It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no… — Ardeth Kapp Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be. — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Copy Share Image
People want what’s best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because there’s always a new disruptor disrupting the last… — Ben Chestnut Copy Share Image
Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and… — Joanna Lohman Copy Share Image
And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
'The Producers' is my favorite movie, and my favorite performances of all time are Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and I feel… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims. — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
