#study

When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold I take off my work clothes, covered in mud and filth, and put on the clothes an ambassador would wear. Decently dressed, I enter the ancient courts of rulers who have long since died. There I am warmly welcomed, and I feed on the only food I find nourishing, and was born to savor. I am not ashamed to talk to them, and to ask them to explain their actions. And they, out of kindness, answer me. Four hours go by without my feeling any anxiety. I forget every worry. I am no longer afraid of poverty, or frightened of death. I live entirely through them. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#reflection #study #death

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#advice #better #could #does #give

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. ↗

— Genevieve Bujold

#around #i #over #pages #script

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#come #doing #i #shakespeare #studying

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself. ↗

— Robert Bork

#almost #anywhere #constitution #court #i

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#best #counsel #divine #excellent #foundation

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

#colors #effects #hues #light #match

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#careful #celestial #compose #duty #expert

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#children #first #frequently #gained #i

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic. ↗

— William Drummond

#i #metaphysic #more #myself #other