Best Personality Quotes for Self-Improvement - page 24

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author\'s portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

Amos Bronson Alcott

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and immoral, not a mistake. And that attitude lasted as long as polls were taken in the early '80s.

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I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

Bertrand Russell

[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, `I'm so nervous. I don't know what to say if I go up there.' He said, `Don't get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.'

Javier Bardem

When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.

Irvine Welsh

I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

Rachel Bloom

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Nat King Cole

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.

RZA

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

Clive Bell

Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

Mpho Koaho

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.

Lee Hirsch

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

Martha Washington

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To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you\'re painted into a corner, then you\'re hung out to dry and, finally, you\'re framed.

To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed.

Warren Christopher

The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.