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The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. — Jim Rohn
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a… — Brian Sutton-Smith
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world… — Irving Penn
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her.… — Irving Penn
Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or… — Philippe Halsman
In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles.… — Philippe Halsman
I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never… — George Rodger
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it, — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject. — Eliza Haywood
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject — George Bernard Shaw
At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me… — William Banting
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as… — Donna Tartt
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their… — Donna Tartt
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in… — Lucian Freud
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. — Howard Hodgkin
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international… — Kwame Nkrumah
The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to… — Assata Shakur
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution… — Irving Fisher
I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of… — Jon Bon Jovi
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of… — Edmund Husserl
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. — Baruch Spinoza
The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject… — L. Neil Smith

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