Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
- Winston Churchill
As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There will be moments when the one you counted on most walks away and leaves you groping through blinding tears and wailing questions of why. Plans and goals can be circumvented by the most disappointing of times, leaving you learning the art of patience and the acceptance of a denied request.
- T. D. Jakes
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth...
- Albert Pike
It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.
- Miyamoto Musashi
No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
- Antonio Gaudi
Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.
- Yip Man
Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.
- Conor McGregor
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.
- Philip Kotler
When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
- William Shakespeare
The art of victory is learned in defeat.
- Simon Bolivar
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
- Hippocrates
Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.
- ASAP Rocky
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
- Valentino Rossi
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
- Saul Leiter
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.
- Kai Greene
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- Voltaire
The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you arenot a brand, you are a commodity. Then price is everything and the low-cost producer is the only winner.
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
- Pablo Picasso
Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.
- Amedeo Modigliani
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
- Bertolt Brecht
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
- Le Corbusier
The noblest art is that of making others happy
- P. T. Barnum
Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
- Zhuge Liang
Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.
- Stephen Curry
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
- Nathanael Greene
The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
- James Connolly
A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study.
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
- William Wordsworth
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
- Aneurin Bevan
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
- Peter Drucker
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
- Michel Foucault
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
- Donald Woods Winnicott
Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.
- Augusto Boal
Posing is a performing art.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
- Claude Monet
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
- Isaac Newton
An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
- Dogen
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
- Kathleen Norris
