Theories are patterns without ...

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
 Constantin Brancusi

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Quotes from the same author

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.
 Constantin Brancusi
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
 Constantin Brancusi
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
 Constantin Brancusi
In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.
 Constantin Brancusi
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.
 Constantin Brancusi