Art to me was a state, it didn't need to be an accomplishment. By any of the standards of production, achievement, performance, I ...was not an artist. But I always thought of myself as one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For what Is remarkable about our chronic reverie (a watch... That is always too slow or too fast) Is the lively sense of accomplishment that haloes it From afar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great object in life is Sensation--to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this "craving void" which drives us to ga...ming, to battle, to travel, to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, pr...ovided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as t...he modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in... what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think..., that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard,... Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and t...hen, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »