Finding Quotes

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I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the… — Vincent Van Gogh
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks… — David McCullough
Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social… — Esther Dyson
Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts.… — Gregory Bateson
Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development. — Robert Henri
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the… — Martin Seligman
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten… — Marion Milner
Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things. — Roger Scruton
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. — Adam Gopnik
I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too. — Peter Gay
Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron. — Michael Ramsey
There's a belief that whatever it is I'm looking for is out there, but I have a really difficult time finding it. Search algorithms alone… — Chris Shipley
I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is… — Jerry Saltz
I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. — Anna Deavere Smith
This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me.… — Yo-Yo Ma
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled… — Louise Bourgeois

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