Pooled Variance Quotes & Sayings

The first step is to stop seeing everything as a threat. You can't will this to happen - it requires wider exposure. If you've been punched in the face, you won't worry as much about a mugger, for example. If you face the flinch in meditation, you don't worry about a long line at the bank. Build your base of confidence by having a vaster set of experiences to call upon, and you'll realize you can handle more than you used to. — Julien Smith

I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams. — James Lee Burke

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class. — Narendra Modi

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. — Ad Reinhardt

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red. — Titian

Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this. At the sight, he himself was struck with amazement and his whole army also. — Eusebius

Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof. — Ogwo David Emenike

If you love her, you cannot see her. — William Shakespeare

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives. — Rudyard Kipling

I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get to sit in a room on my own and the set costs nothing and the actors cost nothing and I'm the director and it's so simple. You just need a pen and paper to make a book. You don't need a huge budget or a gaffer or a best boy. — Markus Zusak

Goodbye is goodbye, Caeden, it doesn't matter who you're saying it to," I turned around and sat down. — Micalea Smeltzer

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — Walter Darby Bannard