Balla Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular. — Giacomo Balla

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time. — Sugata Mitra

Regret and guilt are useless emotions that hold ye in a past that's already gone . . . and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that allowing yerself to be dragged down by the past helps no one. It jest keeps ye from ha'ing both feet in the present where ye should be. — Lynsay Sands

Here is a paradox for the creator: if you love your work, let it go.15 Because if you grip it too tightly, you will strangle it. If you hold it in open hands, you may actually find that the work has a life of its own. Creativity is more about listening and following than it is about forcing or manipulating. The truth for the creator is that you have a very limited control over anything in the world, even your own creation. You can work on it. You can help mold and shape its form. But there will come a point in the creative process where your creation is what it is. There comes a point where there is nothing left to do but to rest. To open your hands and let it go. You cannot control how others will receive it. They — Michael Gungor

For me, acting in scenes with other people is like playing soccer with a bunch of legless five year olds. It's not really fair to them, but what else can I do, you know? — Zach Braff

There was one thing I was never going to do
no way: preach at a crusade! — Franklin Graham

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. — Ram Dass

They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress. — Giacomo Balla

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent. — Hans Rosling

Which came first:
the change-ready company or the change-ready employee? — Lorii Myers

I am a part and parcel of God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration. — Giacomo Balla

How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away! — John Gay

I gotta go. The gingerbread men are on fire. — David Levithan

And we must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc. — Giacomo Balla

But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not knowing is part of the adventure, and it's also what makes us afraid. Bodhichitta — Pema Chodron

Sometimes a beautiful woman just needs a hard, slow fuck against a wall with a perfect stranger. I understand. — Olivia Cunning

F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.' — Bill Maher

I get fired up when emotions are involved. I think it pulls a little bit of extra out of me. — Jon Jones