Quotes by Thinking Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy. Agnes Martin worryartthinking Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. Agnes Meyer Driscoll thoughtfultruththinking We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives. Agnes Meyer Driscoll womendemocracythinking There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it. Agnes Obel teenagerclassthinking On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener. Agnes Obel perspectivefeelingsthinking The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble. Agnes Repplier simplepersonalitythinking For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century. Agnes Repplier shiftingcomedythinking An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice. Agnes Repplier dreamappreciationthinking It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little. Agnes Repplier feelingslittlesthinking Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves. Agnes Repplier bookchildrenthinking The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. Agnes Repplier studyhistorythinking Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language. Agnes Repplier likesgivingthinking The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody. Agnes Repplier agementhinking I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote. Agnes Repplier givingmenthinking The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are. Agnes Repplier permitenglandthinking The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think. Agnes Repplier childrentravelthinking I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them. Agnes Sligh Turnbull governmentchangethinking I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom. Agnes Varda camerasschoolthinking It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it. Agnes Varda nicesleepthinking I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that. Agnes Varda differentpeoplethinking«4243444546474849505152»
