#receives

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#artist #bit #brain #computer #experiences

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ↗

— Ellen Key

#besides #corporal #effect #gives #hardening

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. ↗

— Og Mandino

#art #benefactor #better #crown #does

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#loyalty #person #receives #who

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ↗

— John Muir

#every #far #more #nature #receives

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

#impressions #like #longest #mind #ones

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification. ↗

— William Ames

#church #continual #direction #god #means

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#always #any #blood #earned #followers

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#cross #doubt #interpretation #new #new testament

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#about #bargains #bestowed #destruction #ever