#sen

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#always #anything #certainly #door #guitar

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#another #another way #essentially #express #human

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#creativity #enemy #good #sense

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#been #i #joined #line #map

I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#back #buy #company #dividends #i

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #come #deserves #everyone #i

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#alive #award #between #book #called

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#casual #clothes #criminal #funeral #lawyer

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting