Facility Quotes

127 quotes by 114 authors

I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness… — John Steinbeck
The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility. — Ken Calvert
Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement… — Richard Shusterman
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once… — Michel de Montaigne
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together… — Eric Hoffer
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a… — Eric Hoffer
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty. — Samuel Smiles
It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes… — David Hockney
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for… — Eugene Delacroix
Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not… — William Morris Hunt
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He… — Walter J. Phillips
If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If… — Bill Simmons
I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll… — Robert Draper
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud… — Jean de la Bruyere
I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility. — Elvis Costello
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses… — Stockwell Day
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for… — Walt Disney
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research… — Terry Eagleton

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