Losing my father at a tender ...

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
 Chuck Close

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
 Chuck Close
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.
 Chuck Close
Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.
 Chuck Close
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
 Chuck Close
I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.
 Chuck Close