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"My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most."
"We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from."
"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man."
"In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other."
"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."
"I did not even finish my studies"
"I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family."
"I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game."
"Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study."
"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge."
"One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible primaries. (An attempt to “prove” them is self-contradict ory: it is an attempt to “prove” existence by means of nonexistence, and consciousness by means of unconsciousness .)"
"Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else."
"Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising."
"My own career is a case study for what I believe in."
"There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken."
"I study history in order to give an interpretation."
"I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others."
"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."
"Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it."
"Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners."
