"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."

Act, Day, Order

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"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."

John Ensign, American Politician

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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."

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"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."

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"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."

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"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."

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"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."

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"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."

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