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If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you… — Paul Gauguin
I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead! — Clive James
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen. — Ken Venturi
Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown,… — George Crabbe
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going… — Freya Stark
If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming… — Brian Tracy
Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to… — Chogyam Trungpa
No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the… — Chogyam Trungpa
We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead,… — Peter McWilliams
Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right? — Hugh Prather
We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last. — Pema Chodron
Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and… — Kenneth Grahame
Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to… — Ken Blanchard
Hello, Do not greet anybody when the heart is filled with anger distrust etc. Have, instead, a pure hollow from which a whole hearted Hello… — Sathya Sai Baba
You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns. — Sathya Sai Baba
When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now -… — Ray Charles
Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead… — Paul Klee
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. — Paul Dickson
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain de Botton
All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending… — Jimmy Durante
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. — Theodore Sturgeon
I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the… — Sean William Scott
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to… — Julia Cameron
We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to… — Julia Cameron

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